diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 50f063c0..b7374bc8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,11 @@ # Logstash-exporter +Export metrics from Logstash to Prometheus. +The project was created as rewrite of existing awesome application +[logstash_exporter](https://github.com/BonnierNews/logstash_exporter), +which was also written in Go, but it was not maintained for a long time. +A lot of code was reused from the original project. + ## Building ### Makefile