Testing Logstash Configuration

An example of how to test a logstash configuration. Uses shell and vanilla Python. Executes end-to-end tests.

Usage

Run ./run_demo.sh

Example output

         $ ./run_tests.sh
         Sending logstash logs to /var/folders/lb/w82zc8ps6jq2_1tf219ctk_80000gn/T/tmp.SIyNazgk/logstash.out.
         test_cases/01-admin: OK
         test_cases/02-favicon: FAIL, missing file test_cases/02-favicon.expected-output.json
         test_cases/03-css: FAIL
         --- expected.json
         +++ actual.json
         @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
              "@version": "1",
              "agent": "\"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1\"",
              "auth": "-",
         -    "bytes": 1837,
         +    "bytes": "1837",
              "clientip": "98.83.179.51",
              "host": "localhost",
              "httpversion": "1.1",
         $

The example config and the test data is from www.elastic.co.