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Command-line flags - logstash |
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The logstash agent has the following flags (also try using the '--help' flag)
- --config CONFIGFILE
- Load the logstash config from a specific file, directory, or a wildcard. If given a directory or wildcard, config files will be read in order lexigraphically.
- --log FILE
- Log to a given path. Default is to log to stdout
- -v
- Increase verbosity. There are multiple levels of verbosity available with '-vvv' currently being the highest
- --pluginpath PLUGIN_PATH
- A colon-delimted path to find other logstash plugins in
Note: Plugins can provide addition command-line flags, such as the grok filter. Plugin-specific flags always start with the plugin name, like --grok-foo.
- --log FILE
- Log to a given path. Default is stdout.
- --address ADDRESS
- Address on which to start webserver. Default is 0.0.0.0.
- --port PORT
- Port on which to start webserver. Default is 9292.
- --backend URL
- The backend URL to use. Default is elasticsearch:/// (assumes multicast discovery). You can specify elasticsearch://[host][:port]/[clustername]