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Logging drupal logs with Logstash and drupal_dblog

Do you have a Drupal website with a lot of traffic? Then you might know how it feels when you have to debug a problem and you find out that the period you are looking for is no longer available in the Recent Logs messages menu.

One of our clients, whose website is powered by Drupal and serves ~500.000/requests per day, has tasked us to keep a history of these logs, so issues can be tracked, quantified and displayed in a more visual friendly way.

OS used in this scenario: Ubuntu Server
Software needed: ElasticSearch, Logstash, drupal_dblog plugin, Kibana
Infrastructure scenario: 1 web server (192.168.1.10), 1 database server (192.168.1.99).
All required software will be installed on the web server.
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