LogStash is a great program, but I’m not going to get into that topic right now. So simply put, if you are aware of LogStash being great and are using it but feel like you need an init script to run it as a service then here’s the most recent and best (according to my personal functionality testing of all of the existing logstash init scripts available online) init script available: download the improved init script from my repo.
Note: this was originally written by Michael Ladd but was lacking some functionality to run on CentOS 6.3; so this is an improved version of that script.
