An input plugin enables a specific source of events to be read by Logstash.
The following input plugins are available below. For a list of Elastic supported plugins, please consult the Support Matrix.
Plugin |
Description |
Github repository |
Receives events from Azure Event Hubs |
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Receives events from the Elastic Beats framework |
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Pulls events from the Amazon Web Services CloudWatch API |
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Streams events from CouchDB’s |
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read events from Logstash’s dead letter queue |
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Receives events from the Elastic Agent framework |
logstash-input-beats (shared) |
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Accepts events from Elastic Serverless Forwarder |
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Reads query results from an Elasticsearch cluster |
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Captures the output of a shell command as an event |
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Streams events from files |
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Reads Ganglia packets over UDP |
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Reads GELF-format messages from Graylog2 as events |
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Generates random log events for test purposes |
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Reads events from a GitHub webhook |
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Extract events from files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket |
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Consume events from a Google Cloud PubSub service |
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Reads metrics from the |
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Generates heartbeat events for testing |
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Receives events over HTTP or HTTPS |
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Decodes the output of an HTTP API into events |
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Reads mail from an IMAP server |
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Reads events from an IRC server |
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Generates synthetic log events |
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Reads events from standard input |
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Creates events from JDBC data |
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Reads events from a Jms Broker |
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Retrieves metrics from remote Java applications over JMX |
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Reads events from a Kafka topic |
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Receives events through an AWS Kinesis stream |
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Reads events over a TCP socket from a Log4j |
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Receives events using the Lumberjack protocl |
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Captures the output of command line tools as an event |
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Streams events from a long-running command pipe |
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Receives facts from a Puppet server |
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Pulls events from a RabbitMQ exchange |
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Reads events from a Redis instance |
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Receives RELP events over a TCP socket |
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Captures the output of command line tools as an event |
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Streams events from files in a S3 bucket |
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Reads logs from AWS S3 buckets using sqs |
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Creates events based on a Salesforce SOQL query |
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Polls network devices using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) |
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Creates events based on SNMP trap messages |
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Creates events based on rows in an SQLite database |
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Pulls events from an Amazon Web Services Simple Queue Service queue |
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Reads events from standard input |
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Creates events received with the STOMP protocol |
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Reads syslog messages as events |
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Reads events from a TCP socket |
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Reads events from the Twitter Streaming API |
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Reads events over UDP |
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Reads events over a UNIX socket |
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Reads from the |
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Reads events from a websocket |
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Creates events based on the results of a WMI query |
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Receives events over the XMPP/Jabber protocol |