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Learning ELK Stack
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Learning ELK Stack

by Saurabh Chhajed
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
206 pages
3h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Logstash plugins

Logstash has a variety of plugins to help integrate it with a variety of input and output sources. Let's explore the various plugins available.

Listing all plugins in Logstash

You can execute the following command to list all available plugins in your installed Logstash version:

bin/plugin list

Also, you can list all plugins containing a name fragment by executing this command:

bin/plugin list <namefragment>

To list all plugins for group names, input, output, or filter, we can execute this command:

bin/plugin list --group <group name>
bin/plugin list --group output

Before exploring various plugin configurations, let's take a look at the data types and conditional expressions used in various Logstash configurations.

Data types for ...

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