Read data from standard input
Input Plugin: Standard input (stdin)¶
This plugin reads data from the standard input stream and is activated by default.
Configuration¶
input: stdin: true # disable reading from stdin # stdin: false output: stdout: yaml # use 'pretty' for pretty json and 'ldjson' for line delimited json # stdout: pretty # stdout: ldjson
Start logagent
cat test.log | logagent --yaml cat test.log | logagent --config stdin.yaml # convert a JSON file to YAML cat test.json | logagent --yaml > test.yml # index a JSON file in elasticsearch cat mydata.json | logagent -e http://elasticsearch:9200 -i myindex