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Doc: Message Logstash module deprecations and removal #16840

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Related:
#16590
#16739

Messages deprecation of Logstash modules to preserve links and offer users a path forward with other options.

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@karenzone karenzone added the docs label Dec 27, 2024
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📃 DOCS PREVIEWhttps://logstash_bk_16840.docs-preview.app.elstc.co/diff

@karenzone karenzone marked this pull request as ready for review December 27, 2024 23:37
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All look good to me. I think we need to update the CEF part of deploying and scaling Logstash as it still points to a blog post of arcsight module.

Maybe point it to CEF integration?

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Pointer to more appropriate azure module replacement

[discrete]
[role="exclude",id="azure-module"]
==== Azure module (deprecated)

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The Azure Event Hub integration is a more natural replacement - the Azure module for metricbeat is more for general azure process monitoring, whereas event hubs are the azure equivalent of Kafka. It is the Azure event hub plugin that the module works with

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📃 DOCS PREVIEWhttps://logstash_bk_16840.docs-preview.app.elstc.co/diff


The https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-is-azure/[Microsoft Azure]
module in Logstash helps you easily integrate your Azure activity logs and SQL
diagnostic logs with the Elastic Stack.
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I'm not sure if I'd keep the descriptive blurbs underneath. WDYT?

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I deleted a lot of text, but left the highlevel descriptions in to provide a bit of context. If somebody has a link, sending them to a heading and a deprecation notice doesn't seem to be enough. That context might help them decide if they're interesting in pursuing the alternatives we suggest.

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Actually, looking further into it - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/integrations/current/azure-events.html might be a better link - it seems much more comprehensive than the one I linked earlier, and does a lot more than our module does/did

@flexitrev WDYT?

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