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Line codec plugin
editLine codec plugin
edit- Plugin version: v3.1.1
- Released on: 2021-07-15
- Changelog
For other versions, see the Versioned plugin docs.
Getting help
editFor 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.
Description
editReads 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)
editThis plugin is compatible with the Elastic Common Schema (ECS). No additional configuration is required.
Line codec configuration options
editSetting | 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.
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