udp

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  • Version: 3.0.2
  • Released on: July 14, 2016
  • Changelog

Getting Help

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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.

Description

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Send events over UDP

Keep in mind that UDP will lose messages.

 

Synopsis

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This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

udp {
    host => ...
    port => ...
}

Available configuration options:

Setting Input type Required

codec

codec

No

enable_metric

boolean

No

host

string

Yes

id

string

No

port

number

Yes

workers

<<,>>

No

Details

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codec

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

The codec used for output data. Output codecs are a convenient method for encoding your data before it leaves the output, without needing a separate filter in your Logstash pipeline.

enable_metric

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  • Value type is boolean
  • Default value is true

Disable or enable metric logging for this specific plugin instance by default we record all the metrics we can, but you can disable metrics collection for a specific plugin.

host

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

The address to send messages to

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

Add a unique ID to the plugin configuration. If no ID is specified, Logstash will generate one. It is strongly recommended to set this ID in your configuration. This is particularly useful when you have two or more plugins of the same type, for example, if you have 2 grok filters. Adding a named ID in this case will help in monitoring Logstash when using the monitoring APIs.

output {
 stdout {
   id => "my_plugin_id"
 }
}

port

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  • This is a required setting.
  • Value type is number
  • There is no default value for this setting.

The port to send messages on

workers

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  • Value type is string
  • Default value is 1

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