Logging from Java app to ELK without need for parsing logs

Question

I want to send logs from a Java app to ElasticSearch, and the conventional approach seems to be to set up Logstash on the server running the app, and have logstash parse the

Answer 1

There is also https://github.com/elastic/java-ecs-logging which provides a layout for log4j, log4j2 and Logback. It's quite efficient and the Filebeat configuration is very minimal.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of this library.