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avro

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avro

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This is a community-maintained plugin! It does not ship with Logstash by default, but it is easy to install by running bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-codec-avro.

Read serialized Avro records as Logstash events

This plugin is used to serialize Logstash events as Avro datums, as well as deserializing Avro datums into Logstash events.

Encoding

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This codec is for serializing individual Logstash events as Avro datums that are Avro binary blobs. It does not encode Logstash events into an Avro file.

Decoding

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This codec is for deserializing individual Avro records. It is not for reading Avro files. Avro files have a unique format that must be handled upon input.

Usage

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Example usage with Kafka input.

input {
  kafka {
    codec => {
      avro => {
        schema_uri => "/tmp/schema.avsc"
      }
    }
  }
}
filter {
  ...
}
output {
  ...
}

 

Synopsis

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This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

avro {
      schema_uri => ...
  }

Available configuration options:

Setting Input type Required Default value

schema_uri

string

Yes

Details

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schema_uri

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  • This is a required setting.
  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

schema path to fetch the schema from. This can be a http or file scheme URI example:

  • http - http://example.com/schema.avsc
  • file - /path/to/schema.avsc
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