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There is no dedicated Logstash output plugin for ArangoDB on the [Logstash plugins page](https://github.com/logstash-plugins), so I had already accepted to write one on my own. Browsing the plugins page for inspiration, I found an [HTTP output plugin for Logstash](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-http). It seems to be general enough that it can send the log event in JSON format to any HTTP-speaking backend. ArangoDB’s API is JSON over HTTP, so it sounded like a perfect match. I briefly tried it out and it seemed to work fine. 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