Line codec pluginedit
- Plugin version: v3.1.1
- Released on: 2021-07-15
- Changelog
For other versions, see the Versioned plugin docs.
Getting Helpedit
For questions about the plugin, open a topic in the Discuss forums. For bugs or feature requests, open an issue in Github. For the list of Elastic supported plugins, please consult the Elastic Support Matrix.
Descriptionedit
Reads line-oriented text data.
- Decoding behavior
- Only whole line events are emitted.
- Encoding behavior
- Each event is emitted with a trailing newline.
Compatibility with the Elastic Common Schema (ECS)edit
This plugin is compatible with the Elastic Common Schema (ECS). No additional configuration is required.
Line codec configuration optionsedit
Setting | Input type | Required |
---|---|---|
string, one of |
No |
|
No |
||
No |
charset
edit
-
Value can be any of:
ASCII-8BIT
,UTF-8
,US-ASCII
,Big5
,Big5-HKSCS
,Big5-UAO
,CP949
,Emacs-Mule
,EUC-JP
,EUC-KR
,EUC-TW
,GB2312
,GB18030
,GBK
,ISO-8859-1
,ISO-8859-2
,ISO-8859-3
,ISO-8859-4
,ISO-8859-5
,ISO-8859-6
,ISO-8859-7
,ISO-8859-8
,ISO-8859-9
,ISO-8859-10
,ISO-8859-11
,ISO-8859-13
,ISO-8859-14
,ISO-8859-15
,ISO-8859-16
,KOI8-R
,KOI8-U
,Shift_JIS
,UTF-16BE
,UTF-16LE
,UTF-32BE
,UTF-32LE
,Windows-31J
,Windows-1250
,Windows-1251
,Windows-1252
,IBM437
,IBM737
,IBM775
,CP850
,IBM852
,CP852
,IBM855
,CP855
,IBM857
,IBM860
,IBM861
,IBM862
,IBM863
,IBM864
,IBM865
,IBM866
,IBM869
,Windows-1258
,GB1988
,macCentEuro
,macCroatian
,macCyrillic
,macGreek
,macIceland
,macRoman
,macRomania
,macThai
,macTurkish
,macUkraine
,CP950
,CP951
,IBM037
,stateless-ISO-2022-JP
,eucJP-ms
,CP51932
,EUC-JIS-2004
,GB12345
,ISO-2022-JP
,ISO-2022-JP-2
,CP50220
,CP50221
,Windows-1256
,Windows-1253
,Windows-1255
,Windows-1254
,TIS-620
,Windows-874
,Windows-1257
,MacJapanese
,UTF-7
,UTF8-MAC
,UTF-16
,UTF-32
,UTF8-DoCoMo
,SJIS-DoCoMo
,UTF8-KDDI
,SJIS-KDDI
,ISO-2022-JP-KDDI
,stateless-ISO-2022-JP-KDDI
,UTF8-SoftBank
,SJIS-SoftBank
,BINARY
,CP437
,CP737
,CP775
,IBM850
,CP857
,CP860
,CP861
,CP862
,CP863
,CP864
,CP865
,CP866
,CP869
,CP1258
,Big5-HKSCS:2008
,ebcdic-cp-us
,eucJP
,euc-jp-ms
,EUC-JISX0213
,eucKR
,eucTW
,EUC-CN
,eucCN
,CP936
,ISO2022-JP
,ISO2022-JP2
,ISO8859-1
,ISO8859-2
,ISO8859-3
,ISO8859-4
,ISO8859-5
,ISO8859-6
,CP1256
,ISO8859-7
,CP1253
,ISO8859-8
,CP1255
,ISO8859-9
,CP1254
,ISO8859-10
,ISO8859-11
,CP874
,ISO8859-13
,CP1257
,ISO8859-14
,ISO8859-15
,ISO8859-16
,CP878
,MacJapan
,ASCII
,ANSI_X3.4-1968
,646
,CP65000
,CP65001
,UTF-8-MAC
,UTF-8-HFS
,UCS-2BE
,UCS-4BE
,UCS-4LE
,CP932
,csWindows31J
,SJIS
,PCK
,CP1250
,CP1251
,CP1252
,external
,locale
-
Default value is
"UTF-8"
The character encoding used in this input. Examples include UTF-8
and cp1252
This setting is useful if your log files are in Latin-1
(aka cp1252
)
or in another character set other than UTF-8
.
This only affects "plain" format logs since json is UTF-8
already.