Converting CSV to JSON in Filebeat

Introduction Many organisations use excel files for creating and storing important data. For various reasons it may be useful to import such data into Elasticsearch. For example, one may need to get Master Data that is created in a spreadsheet into Elasticsearch where it could be used for enriching Elasticsearch documents. Or one may wish to use Elasticsearch and Kibana for analysing a dataset that is only available in a spreadsheet. In such cases, one option is to use Filebeat for uploading such CSV data into an Elasticsearch cluster. ...

March 17, 2020