elasticsearch

Read from an Elasticsearch cluster, based on search query results. This is useful for replaying test logs, reindexing, etc.

Example:

input {
  # Read all documents from Elasticsearch matching the given query
  elasticsearch {
    host => "localhost"
    query => '{ "query": { "match": { "statuscode": 200 } } }'
  }
}

This would create an Elasticsearch query with the following format:

http://localhost:9200/logstash-*/_search?q='{ "query": { "match": { "statuscode": 200 } } }'&scroll=1m&size=1000

TODO(sissel): Option to keep the index, type, and doc id so we can do reindexing?

 

Synopsis

This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

elasticsearch {
}

Available configuration options:

Setting Input typeRequiredDefault value

add_field

hash

No

{}

ca_file

a valid filesystem path

No

codec

codec

No

"json"

hosts

array

No

index

string

No

"logstash-*"

password

password

No

port

number

No

9200

query

string

No

"*"

scan

boolean

No

true

scroll

string

No

"1m"

size

number

No

1000

ssl

boolean

No

false

tags

array

No

type

string

No

user

string

No

Details

 

add_field

  • Value type is hash
  • Default value is {}

Add a field to an event

ca_file

  • Value type is path
  • There is no default value for this setting.

SSL Certificate Authority file

charset (DEPRECATED)

  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value can be any of: ASCII-8BIT, Big5, Big5-HKSCS, Big5-UAO, CP949, Emacs-Mule, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, EUC-TW, 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, US-ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, Windows-1251, GB2312, 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, stateless-ISO-2022-JP, eucJP-ms, CP51932, GB12345, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, CP50220, CP50221, Windows-1252, Windows-1250, Windows-1256, Windows-1253, Windows-1255, Windows-1254, TIS-620, Windows-874, Windows-1257, Windows-31J, 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, eucJP, euc-jp-ms, eucKR, eucTW, EUC-CN, eucCN, CP936, ISO2022-JP, ISO2022-JP2, ISO8859-1, CP1252, ISO8859-2, CP1250, 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, CP932, csWindows31J, SJIS, PCK, MacJapan, ASCII, ANSI_X3.4-1968, 646, CP65000, CP65001, UTF-8-MAC, UTF-8-HFS, UCS-2BE, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE, CP1251, external, locale
  • There is no default value for this setting.

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.

codec

  • Value type is codec
  • Default value is "json"

The codec used for input data. Input codecs are a convenient method for decoding your data before it enters the input, without needing a separate filter in your Logstash pipeline.

debug (DEPRECATED)

  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is false

format (DEPRECATED)

  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value can be any of: plain, json, json_event, msgpack_event
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The format of input data (plain, json, json_event)

hosts

  • Value type is array
  • There is no default value for this setting.

List of elasticsearch hosts to use for querying.

index

  • Value type is string
  • Default value is "logstash-*"

The index or alias to search.

message_format (DEPRECATED)

  • DEPRECATED WARNING: This configuration item is deprecated and may not be available in future versions.
  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

If format is json, an event sprintf string to build what the display @message should be given (defaults to the raw JSON). sprintf format strings look like %{fieldname}

If format is json_event, ALL fields except for @type are expected to be present. Not receiving all fields will cause unexpected results.

password

  • Value type is password
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Basic Auth - password

port

  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 9200

The HTTP port of your Elasticsearch server’s REST interface.

query

  • Value type is string
  • Default value is "*"

The query to be executed.

scan

  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is true

Enable the Elasticsearch "scan" search type. This will disable sorting but increase speed and performance.

scroll

  • Value type is string
  • Default value is "1m"

This parameter controls the keepalive time in seconds of the scrolling request and initiates the scrolling process. The timeout applies per round trip (i.e. between the previous scan scroll request, to the next).

size

  • Value type is number
  • Default value is 1000

This allows you to set the maximum number of hits returned per scroll.

ssl

  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is false

SSL

tags

  • Value type is array
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Add any number of arbitrary tags to your event.

This can help with processing later.

type

  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Add a type field to all events handled by this input.

Types are used mainly for filter activation.

The type is stored as part of the event itself, so you can also use the type to search for it in the web interface.

If you try to set a type on an event that already has one (for example when you send an event from a shipper to an indexer) then a new input will not override the existing type. A type set at the shipper stays with that event for its life even when sent to another Logstash server.

user

  • Value type is string
  • There is no default value for this setting.

Basic Auth - username