Logstash plugins
Logstash has a variety of plugins to help integrate it with a variety of input and output sources. Let's explore the various plugins available.
Listing all plugins in Logstash
You can execute the following command to list all available plugins in your installed Logstash version:
bin/plugin list
Also, you can list all plugins containing a name fragment by executing this command:
bin/plugin list <namefragment>
To list all plugins for group names, input, output, or filter, we can execute this command:
bin/plugin list --group <group name> bin/plugin list --group output
Before exploring various plugin configurations, let's take a look at the data types and conditional expressions used in various Logstash configurations.
Data types for plugin properties
A Logstash plugin requires certain settings or properties to be set. Those properties have certain values that belong to one of the following important data types.
Array
An array is collection of values for a property...
