Kibana + Elasticsearch without Logstash possible?

Question

I am kind of new to Logstash. We have a legacy web application which ships logs directly to Redis server in JSON format. Now I want to display that logs on web interface.
What I read about Elasticsearch and Kibana, I am really impressed by their functionalities.
Is that possible to feed logs from redis to directly elasticsearch and then visualized them using Kibana ?

Answer 1

Yes, Kibana can display any information stored in ElasticSearch indexes.

You'll need a way of automatically indexing items from Redis to ElasticSearch though. You can rather write your own script (should be pretty simple in your case) or use existing software like Redis plugin for LogStash or Redis river plugin for ElasticSearch (deprecated)

Answer 2

Absolutely, you can use Kibana to browse non-logstash indices just fine.