Do you have any plan to add plain codec?

[tsaikd]

Do you have any plan to add plain codec?

[helgeolav]

Hi

Could you tell a bit more about what you are trying to do? What inputs/outputs you want to use a plain codec on?

I assume that with "plain" you mean that a text string should not be handled in the input/output module.

[yjagdale]

so right now every input which is coming from the source is converted to json (timestamp).
In my case, I don't want that conversion and input -> filter it should be the same string as the source.

[yjagdale]

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-codecs-plain.html is the original codec from elastic.

[helgeolav]

Ok, can you tell me what inputs and outputs you work with?

An event contains several fields. Timestamp and message are the two most used.

An input without a codec will typically place the input data into the field message. If the same input is configured to use the json codec, the input data will be parsed and new fields will be created for each set of data in the json.

A timestamp is always added to the event on input.

The filters work on whatever field you want it to work on.

On the output side it is somewhat similar. The elastic output will always convert the event into a JSON struct, meaning all fields, including the timestamp, will be included. Other outputs can handle this differently, allowing you to either choose a codec (json vs plain text), or what field to push out.

[helgeolav]

The filters grok and gonx can be used instead of a codec to parse lines of text.