- Packetbeat Reference: other versions:
- Overview
- Contributing to Beats
- Getting started with Packetbeat
- Setting up and running Packetbeat
- Upgrading Packetbeat
- Configuring Packetbeat
- Set traffic capturing options
- Set up flows to monitor network traffic
- Specify which transaction protocols to monitor
- Specify which processes to monitor
- Specify general settings
- Configure the internal queue
- Configure the output
- Specify SSL settings
- Filter and enhance the exported data
- Parse data by using ingest node
- Export GeoIP Information
- Set up project paths
- Set up the Kibana endpoint
- Load the Kibana dashboards
- Load the Elasticsearch index template
- Configure logging
- Use environment variables in the configuration
- YAML tips and gotchas
- packetbeat.reference.yml
- Exported fields
- AMQP fields
- Beat fields
- Cassandra fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common fields
- DNS fields
- Docker fields
- Flow Event fields
- HTTP fields
- ICMP fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Memcache fields
- MongoDb fields
- MySQL fields
- NFS fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Raw fields
- Redis fields
- Thrift-RPC fields
- TLS fields
- Transaction Event fields
- Measurements (Transactions) fields
- Monitoring Packetbeat
- Securing Packetbeat
- Visualizing Packetbeat data in Kibana
- Troubleshooting
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Configure the output codec
editConfigure the output codec
editFor outputs that do not require a specific encoding, you can change the encoding
by using the codec configuration. You can specify either the json or format
codec. By default the json codec is used.
json.pretty: If pretty is set to true, events will be nicely formatted. The default is false.
Example configuration that uses the json codec with pretty printing enabled to write events to the console:
output.console: codec.json: pretty: true
format.string: Configurable format string used to create a custom formatted message.
Example configurable that uses the format codec to print the events timestamp and message field to console:
output.console: codec.format: string: '%{[@timestamp]} %{[message]}'