For further informations and detailed installation instructions please refer to my blog post on the codecentric Blog. The following instructions give you only a quick overview.
git clone http://github.com/denschu/elk-example
cd elk-examplecd loggging-example-batch
mvn clean installdocker-compose uphttp://<boot2docker-ip>:5601<property name="FILE_LOG_PATTERN" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %5p ${PID:- } [%t] --- %-40.40logger{39} : %m%n%wex"/>Example log statement
2014-10-10 16:34:07.089 INFO 11322 [main] --- s.b.c.e.t.TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer : Tomcat started on port(s): 8090/httpLogstash Grok Pattern
%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:logtime}%{SPACE}%{LOGLEVEL:loglevel} %{SPACE}%{NUMBER:pid}%{SPACE}---%{SPACE}%{SYSLOG5424SD:threadname}%{SPACE}%{JAVACLASSSHORT:classname}%{SPACE}:%{SPACE}%{GREEDYDATA:logmessage}Tested with Spring Boot 1.2.6.RELEASE
JAVACLASSSHORT (?:[\.]?[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)*[A-Za-z0-9$]+Open the preconfigured Logstash Dashboard in Kibana again and you will see upcoming logstatements
http://<docker-host-ip>:5601http://logstash.net/docs/1.4.2/tutorials/getting-started-with-logstash http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/installation/ https://github.com/elasticsearch/logstash-forwarder
openssl req -x509 -batch -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -days 3065 -keyout logstash-forwarder.key -out logstash-forwarder.crt -subj /CN=logstash