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Jdots codec plugin

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Jdots codec plugin

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Logstash Core Plugin. The jdots codec plugin cannot be installed or uninstalled independently of Logstash.

Getting Help

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For questions about the plugin, open a topic in the Discuss forums. For bugs or feature requests, open an issue in Github.

Description

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This codec renders each processed event as a dot (.). It is typically used with the java_stdout output to provide approximate event throughput. It is especially useful when combined with pv and wc -c as follows:

  bin/logstash -f /path/to/config/with/jdots/codec | pv | wc -c
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