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Output plugins

An output plugin sends event data to a particular destination. Outputs are the final stage in the event pipeline.

The following output plugins are available:

Elastic supported plugins

These plugins are maintained and supported by Elastic.

Plugin	Description	Github repository
csv	Writes events to disk in a delimited format	logstash-output-csv
elasticsearch	Stores logs in Elasticsearch	logstash-output-elasticsearch
email	Sends email to a specified address when output is received	logstash-output-email
file	Writes events to files on disk	logstash-output-file
graphite	Writes metrics to Graphite	logstash-output-graphite
http	Sends events to a generic HTTP or HTTPS endpoint	logstash-output-http
kafka	Writes events to a Kafka topic	logstash-output-kafka
lumberjack	Sends events using the `lumberjack` protocol	logstash-output-lumberjack
rabbitmq	Pushes events to a RabbitMQ exchange	logstash-output-rabbitmq
redis	Sends events to a Redis queue using the `RPUSH` command	logstash-output-redis
s3	Sends Logstash events to the Amazon Simple Storage Service	logstash-output-s3
stdout	Prints events to the standard output	logstash-output-stdout
tcp	Writes events over a TCP socket	logstash-output-tcp
udp	Sends events over UDP	logstash-output-udp

Community supported plugins

These plugins are maintained and supported by the community. These plugins have met the Logstash development & testing criteria for integration. Contributors include Community Maintainers, the Logstash core team at Elastic, and the broader community.

Plugin	Description	Github repository
boundary	Sends annotations to Boundary based on Logstash events	logstash-output-boundary
circonus	Sends annotations to Circonus based on Logstash events	logstash-output-circonus
cloudwatch	Aggregates and sends metric data to AWS CloudWatch	logstash-output-cloudwatch
datadog	Sends events to DataDogHQ based on Logstash events	logstash-output-datadog
datadog_metrics	Sends metrics to DataDogHQ based on Logstash events	logstash-output-datadog_metrics
exec	Runs a command for a matching event	logstash-output-exec
ganglia	Writes metrics to Ganglia’s `gmond`	logstash-output-ganglia
gelf	Generates GELF formatted output for Graylog2	logstash-output-gelf
google_bigquery	Writes events to Google BigQuery	logstash-output-google_bigquery
google_cloud_storage	Writes events to Google Cloud Storage	logstash-output-google_cloud_storage
graphtastic	Sends metric data on Windows	logstash-output-graphtastic
hipchat	Writes events to HipChat	logstash-output-hipchat
influxdb	Writes metrics to InfluxDB	logstash-output-influxdb
irc	Writes events to IRC	logstash-output-irc
jira	Writes strutured JSON events to JIRA	logstash-output-jira
juggernaut	Pushes messages to the Juggernaut websockets server	logstash-output-juggernaut
librato	Sends metrics, annotations, and alerts to Librato based on Logstash events	logstash-output-librato
loggly	Ships logs to Loggly	logstash-output-loggly
metriccatcher	Writes metrics to MetricCatcher	logstash-output-metriccatcher
mongodb	Writes events to MongoDB	logstash-output-mongodb
nagios	Sends passive check results to Nagios	logstash-output-nagios
nagios_nsca	Sends passive check results to Nagios using the NSCA protocol	logstash-output-nagios_nsca
newrelic	Sends logstash events to New Relic Insights as custom events	logstash-output-newrelic
opentsdb	Writes metrics to OpenTSDB	logstash-output-opentsdb
pagerduty	Sends notifications based on preconfigured services and escalation policies	logstash-output-pagerduty
pipe	Pipes events to another program’s standard input	logstash-output-pipe
rackspace	Sends events to a Rackspace Cloud Queue service	logstash-output-rackspace
redmine	Creates tickets using the Redmine API	logstash-output-redmine
riak	Writes events to the Riak distributed key/value store	logstash-output-riak
riemann	Sends metrics to Riemann	logstash-output-riemann
sns	Sends events to Amazon’s Simple Notification Service	logstash-output-sns
solr_http	Stores and indexes logs in Solr	logstash-output-solr_http
sqs	Pushes events to an Amazon Web Services Simple Queue Service queue	logstash-output-sqs
statsd	Sends metrics using the `statsd` network daemon	logstash-output-statsd
stomp	Writes events using the STOMP protocol	logstash-output-stomp
syslog	Sends events to a `syslog` server	logstash-output-syslog
webhdfs	Sends Logstash events to HDFS using the `webhdfs` REST API	logstash-output-webhdfs
websocket	Publishes messages to a websocket	logstash-output-websocket
xmpp	Posts events over XMPP	logstash-output-xmpp
zabbix	Sends events to a Zabbix server	logstash-output-zabbix
zeromq	Writes events to a ZeroMQ PUB socket	logstash-output-zeromq

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