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Output plugins

An output plugin sends event data to a particular destination. Outputs are the final stage in the event pipeline.

The following output plugins are available below. For a list of Elastic supported plugins, please consult the Support Matrix.

Plugin	Description	Github repository
boundary	Sends annotations to Boundary based on Logstash events	logstash-output-boundary
circonus	Sends annotations to Circonus based on Logstash events	logstash-output-circonus
cloudwatch	Aggregates and sends metric data to AWS CloudWatch	logstash-output-cloudwatch
csv	Writes events to disk in a delimited format	logstash-output-csv
datadog	Sends events to DataDogHQ based on Logstash events	logstash-output-datadog
datadog_metrics	Sends metrics to DataDogHQ based on Logstash events	logstash-output-datadog_metrics
elasticsearch	Stores logs in Elasticsearch	logstash-output-elasticsearch
email	Sends email to a specified address when output is received	logstash-output-email
exec	Runs a command for a matching event	logstash-output-exec
file	Writes events to files on disk	logstash-output-file
ganglia	Writes metrics to Ganglia’s `gmond`	logstash-output-ganglia
gelf	Generates GELF formatted output for Graylog2	logstash-output-gelf
google_bigquery	Writes events to Google BigQuery	logstash-output-google_bigquery
google_cloud_storage	Writes events to Google Cloud Storage	logstash-output-google_cloud_storage
graphite	Writes metrics to Graphite	logstash-output-graphite
graphtastic	Sends metric data on Windows	logstash-output-graphtastic
hipchat	Writes events to HipChat	logstash-output-hipchat
http	Sends events to a generic HTTP or HTTPS endpoint	logstash-output-http
influxdb	Writes metrics to InfluxDB	logstash-output-influxdb
irc	Writes events to IRC	logstash-output-irc
jira	Writes strutured JSON events to JIRA	logstash-output-jira
juggernaut	Pushes messages to the Juggernaut websockets server	logstash-output-juggernaut
kafka	Writes events to a Kafka topic	logstash-output-kafka
librato	Sends metrics, annotations, and alerts to Librato based on Logstash events	logstash-output-librato
loggly	Ships logs to Loggly	logstash-output-loggly
lumberjack	Sends events using the `lumberjack` protocol	logstash-output-lumberjack
metriccatcher	Writes metrics to MetricCatcher	logstash-output-metriccatcher
mongodb	Writes events to MongoDB	logstash-output-mongodb
nagios	Sends passive check results to Nagios	logstash-output-nagios
nagios_nsca	Sends passive check results to Nagios using the NSCA protocol	logstash-output-nagios_nsca
newrelic	Sends logstash events to New Relic Insights as custom events	logstash-output-newrelic
opentsdb	Writes metrics to OpenTSDB	logstash-output-opentsdb
pagerduty	Sends notifications based on preconfigured services and escalation policies	logstash-output-pagerduty
pipe	Pipes events to another program’s standard input	logstash-output-pipe
rabbitmq	Pushes events to a RabbitMQ exchange	logstash-output-rabbitmq
rackspace	Sends events to a Rackspace Cloud Queue service	logstash-output-rackspace
redis	Sends events to a Redis queue using the `RPUSH` command	logstash-output-redis
redmine	Creates tickets using the Redmine API	logstash-output-redmine
riak	Writes events to the Riak distributed key/value store	logstash-output-riak
riemann	Sends metrics to Riemann	logstash-output-riemann
s3	Sends Logstash events to the Amazon Simple Storage Service	logstash-output-s3
sns	Sends events to Amazon’s Simple Notification Service	logstash-output-sns
solr_http	Stores and indexes logs in Solr	logstash-output-solr_http
sqs	Pushes events to an Amazon Web Services Simple Queue Service queue	logstash-output-sqs
statsd	Sends metrics using the `statsd` network daemon	logstash-output-statsd
stdout	Prints events to the standard output	logstash-output-stdout
stomp	Writes events using the STOMP protocol	logstash-output-stomp
syslog	Sends events to a `syslog` server	logstash-output-syslog
tcp	Writes events over a TCP socket	logstash-output-tcp
udp	Sends events over UDP	logstash-output-udp
webhdfs	Sends Logstash events to HDFS using the `webhdfs` REST API	logstash-output-webhdfs
websocket	Publishes messages to a websocket	logstash-output-websocket
xmpp	Posts events over XMPP	logstash-output-xmpp
zabbix	Sends events to a Zabbix server	logstash-output-zabbix
zeromq	Writes events to a ZeroMQ PUB socket	logstash-output-zeromq

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