Logstash Plugin

This is a plugin for Logstash. It can be used to parse gzip compressed json files.

Example use

# example conf file
input {
  http {    
    codec => gzip_json
  }
}
output {
  stdout {}
}

with this conf file you can send gziped json files to http://logstash-ip:8080 .

It is fully free and fully open source. The license is Apache 2.0, meaning you are pretty much free to use it however you want in whatever way.

Documentation

Logstash provides infrastructure to automatically generate documentation for this plugin. We use the asciidoc format to write documentation so any comments in the source code will be first converted into asciidoc and then into html. All plugin documentation are placed under one central location.

For formatting code or config example, you can use the asciidoc [source,ruby] directive
For more asciidoc formatting tips, see the excellent reference here https://github.com/elastic/docs#asciidoc-guide

Need Help?

Need help? Try #logstash on freenode IRC or the https://discuss.elastic.co/c/logstash discussion forum.

Developing

1. Plugin Developement and Testing

Code

To get started, you'll need JRuby with the Bundler gem installed.
Install dependencies
```
bundle install
```

Test

Update your dependencies

bundle install

Run tests

bundle exec rspec

2. Running your unpublished Plugin in Logstash

2.1 Run in an installed Logstash

Build your plugin gem sh gem build logstash-codec-gzip_json.gemspec
Install the plugin from the Logstash home ```sh # Logstash 2.3 and higher bin/logstash-plugin install path/to/your/gem/file/logstash-codec-gzip_json-.gem

- Start Logstash and proceed to test the plugin

## Contributing

All contributions are welcome: ideas, patches, documentation, bug reports, complaints, and even something you drew up on a napkin.

Programming is not a required skill. Whatever you've seen about open source and maintainers or community members  saying "send patches or die" - you will not see that here.

It is more important to the community that you are able to contribute.