title: Can logstash read directly from remote log?
body: <p>I am new to logstash and I am reading about it from couple of days. Like most of the people, I am trying to have a centralized logging system and store data in elasticsearch and later use kibana to visualize the data. My application is deployed in many servers and hence I need to fetch logs from all those servers. Installing logstash forwarder in all those machines and configuring them seems to be a very tedious task (I will do it if this is the only way). Is there a way for logstash to access those logs by mentioning the URL to logs somewhere in conf file instead of logstash forwarders forwarding it to logstash? FYI, my application is deployed on tomcat and the logs are accessible via URL http://:8080/application_name/error.log.</p>