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This gem is a logstash plugin required to be installed on top of the Logstash core pipeline using $LS_HOME/bin/plugin install logstash-filter-logfmt. This gem is not a stand-alone program
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Runtime

~> 0.0.8
<= 2.99, >= 1.60
 Project Readme

Logstash Logfmt Parser Plugin

Gem Version Build Status

This is a plugin for Logstash, allowing logstash to parse logfmt-formatted messages.

It is fully free and fully open source. The license is Apache 2.0, meaning you are pretty much free to use it however you want in whatever way.

Documentation

Logstash provides infrastructure to automatically generate documentation for this plugin. We use the asciidoc format to write documentation so any comments in the source code will be first converted into asciidoc and then into html. All plugin documentation are placed under one central location.

Need Help?

Need help? Try #logstash on freenode IRC or the https://discuss.elastic.co/c/logstash discussion forum.

Developing

1. Plugin Developement and Testing

Code

  • To get started, you'll need JRuby with the Bundler gem installed.

  • Create a new plugin or clone and existing from the GitHub logstash-plugins organization.

  • Install dependencies

bundle install

Test

bundle exec rspec

The Logstash code required to run the tests/specs is specified in the Gemfile by the line similar to:

gem "logstash", :github => "elasticsearch/logstash", :branch => "1.5"

To test against another version or a local Logstash, edit the Gemfile to specify an alternative location, for example:

gem "logstash", :github => "elasticsearch/logstash", :ref => "master"
gem "logstash", :path => "/your/local/logstash"

Then update your dependencies and run your tests:

bundle install
bundle exec rspec

2. Running your unpublished Plugin in Logstash

2.1 Run in a local Logstash clone

  • Edit Logstash tools/Gemfile and add the local plugin path, for example:
gem "logstash-filter-logfmt", :path => "/your/local/logstash-filter-logfmt"
  • Update Logstash dependencies
rake vendor:gems
  • Run Logstash with your plugin
bin/logstash -e 'filter {logfmt { source => "message" }}'

At this point any modifications to the plugin code will be applied to this local Logstash setup. After modifying the plugin, simply rerun Logstash.

2.2 Run in an installed Logstash

  • Build your plugin gem
gem build logstash-filter-logfmt.gemspec
  • Install the plugin from the Logstash home
bin/plugin install /your/local/plugin/logstash-filter-logfmt.gem
  • Start Logstash and proceed to test the plugin