c. Installing and configuring Logstash
Logstash requires Java
$ java -version
Command 'java' not found, but can be installed with:
apt install default-jre
apt install openjdk-11-jre-headless
apt install openjdk-8-jre-headless
apt install openjdk-9-jre-headless
$ apt install openjdk-11-jre-headless
$ wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/logstash/logstash-7.8.0.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i logstash-7.8.0-amd64.deb
We will add further configurations once we install Opendistro for Elasticsearch plugin for security.