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Logstash Introduction
Getting Started with Logstash
- Installing Logstash
- Stashing Your First Event
- Parsing Logs with Logstash
- Stitching Together Multiple Input and Output Plugins
How Logstash Works
- Execution Model
Setting Up and Running Logstash
- Logstash Directory Layout
- Logstash Configuration Files
- Settings File
- Running Logstash from the Command Line
- Running Logstash as a Service on Debian or RPM
- Running Logstash on Docker
- Logging
- Shutting Down Logstash
Setting Up X-Pack
- Installing X-Pack
- X-Pack Settings
Breaking changes
Upgrading Logstash
- Upgrading Using Package Managers
- Upgrading Using a Direct Download
- Upgrading Logstash to 5.0
- Upgrading with the Persistent Queue Enabled
Configuring Logstash
- Structure of a Config File
- Accessing Event Data and Fields in the Configuration
- Using Environment Variables in the Configuration
- Logstash Configuration Examples
- Reloading the Config File
- Managing Multiline Events
- Glob Pattern Support
- Converting Ingest Node Pipelines
Working with Logstash Modules
- ArcSight Module
- Netflow Module
Working with Filebeat Modules
- Configuration Examples
Data Resiliency
- Persistent Queues
- Dead Letter Queues
Transforming Data
- Performing Core Operations
- Deserializing Data
- Extracting Fields and Wrangling Data
- Enriching Data with Lookups
Deploying and Scaling Logstash
Performance Tuning
- Performance Troubleshooting Guide
- Tuning and Profiling Logstash Performance
Monitoring Logstash
- Monitoring UI
- Monitoring APIs
- Node Info API
- Plugins Info API
- Node Stats API
- Hot Threads API
Working with plugins
- Generating Plugins
- Offline Plugin Management
- Private Gem Repositories
- Event API
Input plugins
- Beats input plugin
- Cloudwatch input plugin
- Couchdb_changes input plugin
- Dead_letter_queue input plugin
- Drupal_dblog input plugin
- Elasticsearch input plugin
- Eventlog output plugin
- Exec input plugin
- File input plugin
- Ganglia input plugin
- Gelf input plugin
- Gemfire input plugin
- Generator input plugin
- Github input plugin
- Google_pubsub input plugin
- Graphite input plugin
- Heartbeat input plugin
- Http input plugin
- Http_poller input plugin
- Imap input plugin
- Irc input plugin
- Jdbc input plugin
- Jms input plugin
- Jmx input plugin
- Kafka input plugin
- Kinesis input plugin
- Log4j input plugin
- Lumberjack input plugin
- Meetup input plugin
- Pipe input plugin
- Puppet_facter input plugin
- Rabbitmq input plugin
- rackspace input plugin
- Redis input plugin
- Relp input plugin
- Rss input plugin
- S3 input plugin
- Salesforce input plugin
- Snmptrap input plugin
- Sqlite input plugin
- Sqs input plugin
- Stdin input plugin
- Stomp input plugin
- Syslog input plugin
- Tcp input plugin
- Twitter input plugin
- Udp input plugin
- Unix input plugin
- Varnishlog input plugin
- Websocket input plugin
- Wmi input plugin
- Xmpp input plugin
- Zenoss input plugin
- Zeromq input plugin
Output plugins
- Boundary output plugin
- Circonus output plugin
- Cloudwatch output plugin
- Csv output plugin
- Datadog output plugin
- Datadog_metrics output plugin
- Elasticsearch output plugin
- Email output plugin
- Exec output plugin
- File output plugin
- Ganglia output plugin
- Gelf output plugin
- Google BigQuery output plugin
- Google_cloud_storage output plugin
- Graphite output plugin
- Graphtastic output plugin
- Http output plugin
- Influxdb output plugin
- Irc output plugin
- Jira output plugin
- Juggernaut output plugin
- Kafka output plugin
- Librato output plugin
- Loggly output plugin
- Lumberjack output plugin
- Metriccatcher output plugin
- Mongodb output plugin
- Nagios output plugin
- Nagios_nsca output plugin
- Newrelic output plugin
- Opentsdb output plugin
- Pagerduty output plugin
- Pipe output plugin
- Rabbitmq output plugin
- Rackspace output plugin
- Redis output plugin
- Redmine output plugin
- Riak output plugin
- Riemann output plugin
- S3 output plugin
- Sns output plugin
- Solr_http output plugin
- Sqs output plugin
- Statsd output plugin
- Stdout output plugin
- Stomp output plugin
- Syslog output plugin
- Tcp output plugin
- Udp output plugin
- Webhdfs output plugin
- Websocket output plugin
- Xmpp output plugin
- Zabbix output plugin
- Zeromq output plugin
Filter plugins
- Aggregate filter plugin
- Alter filter plugin
- Anonymize filter plugin
- Cidr filter plugin
- Cipher filter plugin
- Clone filter plugin
- Collate filter plugin
- Csv filter plugin
- Date filter plugin
- De_dot filter plugin
- Dissect filter plugin
- Dns filter plugin
- Drop filter plugin
- Elapsed filter plugin
- Elasticsearch filter plugin
- Environment filter plugin
- Extractnumbers filter plugin
- Fingerprint filter plugin
- Geoip filter plugin
- Grok filter plugin
- I18n filter plugin
- Jdbc_streaming filter plugin
- Json filter plugin
- Json_encode filter plugin
- Kv filter plugin
- Metaevent filter plugin
- Metricize filter plugin
- Metrics filter plugin
- Mutate filter plugin
- Oui filter plugin
- Prune filter plugin
- Punct filter plugin
- Range filter plugin
- Ruby filter plugin
- Sleep filter plugin
- Split filter plugin
- Syslog_pri filter plugin
- Throttle filter plugin
- Tld filter plugin
- Translate filter plugin
- Truncate filter plugin
- Urldecode filter plugin
- Useragent filter plugin
- Uuid filter plugin
- Xml filter plugin
- Yaml filter plugin
- Zeromq filter plugin
Codec plugins
- Avro codec plugin
- Cef codec plugin
- Cloudfront codec plugin
- Cloudtrail codec plugin
- Collectd codec plugin
- Compress_spooler codec plugin
- Dots codec plugin
- Edn codec plugin
- Edn_lines codec plugin
- Es_bulk codec plugin
- Fluent codec plugin
- Graphite codec plugin
- Gzip_lines codec plugin
- Json codec plugin
- Json_lines codec plugin
- Line codec plugin
- Msgpack codec plugin
- Multiline codec plugin
- Netflow codec plugin
- Nmap codec plugin
- Oldlogstashjson codec plugin
- Plain codec plugin
- Protobuf codec plugin
- Rubydebug codec plugin
Contributing to Logstash
- How to write a Logstash input plugin
- How to write a Logstash input plugin
- How to write a Logstash codec plugin
- How to write a Logstash filter plugin
- Contributing a Patch to a Logstash Plugin
- Logstash Plugins Community Maintainer Guide
- Submitting your plugin to RubyGems.org and the logstash-plugins repository
Glossary of Terms
Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.16 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.15 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.14 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.13 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.12 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.11 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.10 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.9 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.8 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.7 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.6 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.5 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.4 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.3 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.2 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.1 Release Notes
- Logstash 5.6.0 Release Notes

IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

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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
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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