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editThe "plain" codec is for plain text with no delimiting between events.
This is mainly useful on inputs and outputs that already have a defined framing in their transport protocol (such as zeromq, rabbitmq, redis, etc)
Synopsis
editThis plugin supports the following configuration options:
Required configuration options:
plain { }
Available configuration options:
| Setting | Input type | Required | Default value |
|---|---|---|---|
string, one of |
No |
|
|
No |
Details
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charset
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Value can be any of:
ASCII-8BIT,Big5,Big5-HKSCS,Big5-UAO,CP949,Emacs-Mule,EUC-JP,EUC-KR,EUC-TW,GB18030,GBK,ISO-8859-1,ISO-8859-2,ISO-8859-3,ISO-8859-4,ISO-8859-5,ISO-8859-6,ISO-8859-7,ISO-8859-8,ISO-8859-9,ISO-8859-10,ISO-8859-11,ISO-8859-13,ISO-8859-14,ISO-8859-15,ISO-8859-16,KOI8-R,KOI8-U,Shift_JIS,US-ASCII,UTF-8,UTF-16BE,UTF-16LE,UTF-32BE,UTF-32LE,Windows-1251,GB2312,Windows-31J,IBM437,IBM737,IBM775,CP850,IBM852,CP852,IBM855,CP855,IBM857,IBM860,IBM861,IBM862,IBM863,IBM864,IBM865,IBM866,IBM869,Windows-1258,GB1988,macCentEuro,macCroatian,macCyrillic,macGreek,macIceland,macRoman,macRomania,macThai,macTurkish,macUkraine,CP950,CP951,stateless-ISO-2022-JP,eucJP-ms,CP51932,EUC-JIS-2004,GB12345,ISO-2022-JP,ISO-2022-JP-2,CP50220,CP50221,Windows-1252,Windows-1250,Windows-1256,Windows-1253,Windows-1255,Windows-1254,TIS-620,Windows-874,Windows-1257,MacJapanese,UTF-7,UTF8-MAC,UTF-16,UTF-32,UTF8-DoCoMo,SJIS-DoCoMo,UTF8-KDDI,SJIS-KDDI,ISO-2022-JP-KDDI,stateless-ISO-2022-JP-KDDI,UTF8-SoftBank,SJIS-SoftBank,BINARY,CP437,CP737,CP775,IBM850,CP857,CP860,CP861,CP862,CP863,CP864,CP865,CP866,CP869,CP1258,Big5-HKSCS:2008,eucJP,euc-jp-ms,EUC-JISX0213,eucKR,eucTW,EUC-CN,eucCN,CP936,ISO2022-JP,ISO2022-JP2,ISO8859-1,CP1252,ISO8859-2,CP1250,ISO8859-3,ISO8859-4,ISO8859-5,ISO8859-6,CP1256,ISO8859-7,CP1253,ISO8859-8,CP1255,ISO8859-9,CP1254,ISO8859-10,ISO8859-11,CP874,ISO8859-13,CP1257,ISO8859-14,ISO8859-15,ISO8859-16,CP878,MacJapan,ASCII,ANSI_X3.4-1968,646,CP65000,CP65001,UTF-8-MAC,UTF-8-HFS,UCS-2BE,UCS-4BE,UCS-4LE,CP932,csWindows31J,SJIS,PCK,CP1251,external,locale -
Default value is
"UTF-8"
The character encoding used in this input. Examples include UTF-8
and cp1252
This setting is useful if your log files are in Latin-1 (aka cp1252)
or in another character set other than UTF-8.
This only affects "plain" format logs since json is UTF-8 already.