Plain codec pluginedit
- Plugin version: v3.0.3
- Released on: 2017-06-23
- Changelog
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Descriptionedit
The "plain" codec is for plain text with no delimiting between events.
This is mainly useful on inputs and outputs that already have a defined framing in their transport protocol (such as zeromq, rabbitmq, redis, etc)
Plain Codec Configuration Optionsedit
Setting | Input type | Required |
---|---|---|
string, one of |
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
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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.