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doc: Disambiguate `nc` flags usage for data ingestion 

Fixes #835
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Antoine Cotten 2023-03-17 23:54:12 +01:00
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@ -218,17 +218,18 @@ Open the Kibana web UI by opening <http://localhost:5601> in a web browser and u
* user: *elastic* * user: *elastic*
* password: *\<your generated elastic password>* * password: *\<your generated elastic password>*
Now that the stack is fully configured, you can go ahead and inject some log entries. The shipped Logstash configuration Now that the stack is fully configured, you can go ahead and inject some log entries.
allows you to send content via TCP:
```console The shipped Logstash configuration allows you to send data over the TCP port 50000. For example, you can use one of the
# Using BSD netcat (Debian, Ubuntu, MacOS system, ...) following commands — depending on your installed version of `nc` (Netcat) — to ingest the content of the log file
$ cat /path/to/logfile.log | nc -q0 localhost 50000 `/path/to/logfile.log` in Elasticsearch, via Logstash:
```
```console ```sh
# Using GNU netcat (CentOS, Fedora, MacOS Homebrew, ...) # Execute `nc -h` to determine your `nc` version
$ cat /path/to/logfile.log | nc -c localhost 50000
cat /path/to/logfile.log | nc -q0 localhost 50000 # BSD
cat /path/to/logfile.log | nc -c localhost 50000 # GNU
cat /path/to/logfile.log | nc --send-only localhost 50000 # nmap
``` ```
You can also load the sample data provided by your Kibana installation. You can also load the sample data provided by your Kibana installation.