- Logstash Reference: other versions:
- Logstash Introduction
- Getting Started with Logstash
- How Logstash Works
- Setting Up and Running Logstash
- Setting Up X-Pack
- Breaking changes
- Upgrading Logstash
- Configuring Logstash
- Data Resiliency
- Working with Filebeat Modules
- Transforming Data
- Deploying and Scaling Logstash
- Performance Tuning
- Monitoring Logstash
- Working with plugins
- Input plugins
- Beats input plugin
- Cloudwatch input plugin
- Couchdb_changes input plugin
- Dead_letter_queue input plugin
- Drupal_dblog input plugin
- Elasticsearch input plugin
- Eventlog output plugin
- Exec input plugin
- File input plugin
- Ganglia input plugin
- Gelf input plugin
- Gemfire input plugin
- Generator input plugin
- Github input plugin
- Google_pubsub input plugin
- Graphite input plugin
- Heartbeat input plugin
- heroku input plugin
- Http input plugin
- Http_poller input plugin
- Imap input plugin
- Irc input plugin
- Jdbc input plugin
- Jms input plugin
- Jmx input plugin
- Kafka input plugin
- Kinesis input plugin
- Log4j input plugin
- Lumberjack input plugin
- Meetup input plugin
- Pipe input plugin
- Puppet_facter input plugin
- Rabbitmq input plugin
- rackspace input plugin
- Redis input plugin
- Relp input plugin
- Rss input plugin
- S3 input plugin
- Salesforce input plugin
- Snmptrap input plugin
- Sqlite input plugin
- Sqs input plugin
- Stdin input plugin
- Stomp input plugin
- Syslog input plugin
- Tcp input plugin
- Twitter input plugin
- Udp input plugin
- Unix input plugin
- Varnishlog input plugin
- Websocket input plugin
- Wmi input plugin
- Xmpp input plugin
- Zenoss input plugin
- Zeromq input plugin
- Output plugins
- Boundary output plugin
- Circonus output plugin
- Cloudwatch output plugin
- Csv output plugin
- Datadog output plugin
- Datadog_metrics output plugin
- Elasticsearch output plugin
- Email output plugin
- Exec output plugin
- File output plugin
- Ganglia output plugin
- Gelf output plugin
- Google_bigquery output plugin
- Google_cloud_storage output plugin
- Graphite output plugin
- Graphtastic output plugin
- Hipchat output plugin
- Http output plugin
- Influxdb output plugin
- Irc output plugin
- Jira output plugin
- Jms output plugin
- Juggernaut output plugin
- Kafka output plugin
- Librato output plugin
- Loggly output plugin
- Lumberjack output plugin
- Metriccatcher output plugin
- Mongodb output plugin
- Nagios output plugin
- Nagios_nsca output plugin
- Newrelic output plugin
- Opentsdb output plugin
- Pagerduty output plugin
- Pipe output plugin
- Rabbitmq output plugin
- Rackspace output plugin
- Redis output plugin
- Redmine output plugin
- Riak output plugin
- Riemann output plugin
- S3 output plugin
- Sns output plugin
- Solr_http output plugin
- Sqs output plugin
- Statsd output plugin
- Stdout output plugin
- Stomp output plugin
- Syslog output plugin
- Tcp output plugin
- Udp output plugin
- Webhdfs output plugin
- Websocket output plugin
- Xmpp output plugin
- Zabbix output plugin
- Zeromq output plugin
- Filter plugins
- Aggregate filter plugin
- Alter filter plugin
- Anonymize filter plugin
- Cidr filter plugin
- Cipher filter plugin
- Clone filter plugin
- Collate filter plugin
- Csv filter plugin
- Date filter plugin
- De_dot filter plugin
- Dissect filter plugin
- Dns filter plugin
- Drop filter plugin
- Elapsed filter plugin
- Elasticsearch filter plugin
- Environment filter plugin
- Extractnumbers filter plugin
- Fingerprint filter plugin
- Geoip filter plugin
- Grok filter plugin
- I18n filter plugin
- Jdbc_streaming filter plugin
- Json filter plugin
- Json_encode filter plugin
- Kv filter plugin
- Metaevent filter plugin
- Metricize filter plugin
- Metrics filter plugin
- Mutate filter plugin
- Oui filter plugin
- Prune filter plugin
- Punct filter plugin
- Range filter plugin
- Ruby filter plugin
- Sleep filter plugin
- Split filter plugin
- Syslog_pri filter plugin
- Throttle filter plugin
- Tld filter plugin
- Translate filter plugin
- Truncate filter plugin
- Urldecode filter plugin
- Useragent filter plugin
- Uuid filter plugin
- Xml filter plugin
- Yaml filter plugin
- Zeromq filter plugin
- Codec plugins
- Avro codec plugin
- Cef codec plugin
- Cloudfront codec plugin
- Cloudtrail codec plugin
- Collectd codec plugin
- Compress_spooler codec plugin
- Dots codec plugin
- Edn codec plugin
- Edn_lines codec plugin
- Es_bulk codec plugin
- Fluent codec plugin
- Graphite codec plugin
- Gzip_lines codec plugin
- Json codec plugin
- Json_lines codec plugin
- Line codec plugin
- Msgpack codec plugin
- Multiline codec plugin
- Netflow codec plugin
- Nmap codec plugin
- Oldlogstashjson codec plugin
- Plain codec plugin
- Protobuf codec plugin
- Rubydebug codec plugin
- Contributing to Logstash
- How to write a Logstash input plugin
- How to write a Logstash input plugin
- How to write a Logstash codec plugin
- How to write a Logstash filter plugin
- Contributing a Patch to a Logstash Plugin
- Logstash Plugins Community Maintainer Guide
- Submitting your plugin to RubyGems.org and the logstash-plugins repository
- Glossary of Terms
- Release Notes
Logstash Directory Layout
editLogstash Directory Layout
editThis section describes the default directory structure that is created when you unpack the Logstash installation packages.
Directory Layout of .zip
and .tar.gz
Archives
editThe .zip
and .tar.gz
packages are entirely self-contained. All files and
directories are, by default, contained within the home directory — the directory
created when unpacking the archive.
This is very convenient because you don’t have to create any directories to start using Logstash, and uninstalling Logstash is as easy as removing the home directory. However, it is advisable to change the default locations of the config and the logs directories so that you do not delete important data later on.
Type | Description | Default Location | Setting |
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home |
Home directory of the Logstash installation. |
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bin |
Binary scripts, including |
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settings |
Configuration files, including |
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logs |
Log files |
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plugins |
Local, non Ruby-Gem plugin files. Each plugin is contained in a subdirectory. Recommended for development only. |
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Directory Layout of Debian and RPM Packages
editThe Debian package and the RPM package each place config files, logs, and the settings files in the appropriate locations for the system:
Type | Description | Default Location | Setting |
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home |
Home directory of the Logstash installation. |
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bin |
Binary scripts including |
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settings |
Configuration files, including |
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conf |
Logstash pipeline configuration files |
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logs |
Log files |
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plugins |
Local, non Ruby-Gem plugin files. Each plugin is contained in a subdirectory. Recommended for development only. |
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Directory Layout of Docker Images
editThe Docker images are created from the .tar.gz
packages, and follow a
similar directory layout.
Type | Description | Default Location | Setting |
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home |
Home directory of the Logstash installation. |
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bin |
Binary scripts, including |
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settings |
Configuration files, including |
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conf |
Logstash pipeline configuration files |
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plugins |
Local, non Ruby-Gem plugin files. Each plugin is contained in a subdirectory. Recommended for development only. |
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Logstash Docker containers do not create log files by default. They log to standard output.
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