pipe
editpipe
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Pipe output.
Pipe events to stdin of another program. You can use fields from the event as parts of the command. WARNING: This feature can cause logstash to fork off multiple children if you are not carefull with per-event commandline.
Synopsis
editThis plugin supports the following configuration options:
Required configuration options:
pipe { command => ... }
Available configuration options:
Details
edit
codec
edit- Value type is codec
-
Default value is
"plain"
The codec used for output data. Output codecs are a convenient method for encoding your data before it leaves the output, without needing a separate filter in your Logstash pipeline.
command
edit- This is a required setting.
- Value type is string
- There is no default value for this setting.
Command line to launch and pipe to
exclude_tags
(DEPRECATED)
edit- DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
- Value type is array
-
Default value is
[]
Only handle events without any of these tags. Optional.
message_format
edit- Value type is string
- There is no default value for this setting.
The format to use when writing events to the pipe. This value
supports any string and can include %{name}
and other dynamic
strings.
If this setting is omitted, the full json representation of the event will be written as a single line.
tags
(DEPRECATED)
edit- DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
- Value type is array
-
Default value is
[]
Only handle events with all of these tags. Optional.
ttl
edit- Value type is number
-
Default value is
10
Close pipe that hasn’t been used for TTL seconds. -1 or 0 means never close.
type
(DEPRECATED)
edit- DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
- Value type is string
-
Default value is
""
The type to act on. If a type is given, then this output will only
act on messages with the same type. See any input plugin’s type
attribute for more.
Optional.