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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)
- -f, --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 from the directory in alphabetical order.
- -e CONFIGSTRING
- Use the given string as the configuration data. Same syntax as the config file. If not input is specified, 'stdin { type => stdin }' is default. If no output is specified, 'stdout { debug => true }}' is default.
- -w, --filterworks COUNT
- Run COUNT filter workers (default: 1)
- --watchdog-timeout TIMEOUT
- Set watchdog timeout value.
- -l, --log FILE
- Log to a given path. Default is to log to stdout
- -v
- Increase verbosity. There are multiple levels of verbosity available with '-vv' 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.
The logstash web interface has the following flags (also try using the '--help' flag)
- --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.
- -B, --elasticsearch-bind-host ADDRESS
- Address on which to bind elastic search node.
- -b, --backend URL
- The backend URL to use. Default is elasticsearch:/// (assumes multicast discovery). You can specify elasticsearch://[host][:port]/[clustername]