Plain codec plugin
editPlain codec plugin
edit- Plugin version: v3.0.6
- Released on: 2017-12-19
- Changelog
For other versions, see the Versioned plugin docs.
Installation
editFor plugins not bundled by default, it is easy to install by running bin/logstash-plugin install logstash-codec-plain
. See Working with plugins for more details.
Getting Help
editFor questions about the plugin, open a topic in the Discuss forums. For bugs or feature requests, open an issue in Github. For the list of Elastic supported plugins, please consult the Elastic Support Matrix.
Description
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)
Plain Codec Configuration Options
editSetting | Input type | Required |
---|---|---|
string, one of |
No |
|
No |
charset
edit-
Value can be any of:
ASCII-8BIT
,UTF-8
,US-ASCII
,Big5
,Big5-HKSCS
,Big5-UAO
,CP949
,Emacs-Mule
,EUC-JP
,EUC-KR
,EUC-TW
,GB2312
,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
,UTF-16BE
,UTF-16LE
,UTF-32BE
,UTF-32LE
,Windows-31J
,Windows-1250
,Windows-1251
,Windows-1252
,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
,IBM037
,stateless-ISO-2022-JP
,eucJP-ms
,CP51932
,EUC-JIS-2004
,GB12345
,ISO-2022-JP
,ISO-2022-JP-2
,CP50220
,CP50221
,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
,ebcdic-cp-us
,eucJP
,euc-jp-ms
,EUC-JISX0213
,eucKR
,eucTW
,EUC-CN
,eucCN
,CP936
,ISO2022-JP
,ISO2022-JP2
,ISO8859-1
,ISO8859-2
,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
,CP1250
,CP1251
,CP1252
,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.