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community.general.logstash – Sends events to Logstash

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.logstash.

Synopsis

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.

  • whitelisting in configuration
  • logstash (python library)

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
format_version
string
added in 2.0.0 of community.general
    Choices:
  • v1 ←
  • v2
ini entries:

[callback_logstash]
format_version = v1

env:LOGSTASH_FORMAT_VERSION
Logging format
port
string
Default:
5000
ini entries:

[callback_logstash]
port = 5000

added in 1.0.0 of community.general
env:LOGSTASH_PORT
Port on which logstash is listening
pre_command
string
added in 2.0.0 of community.general
ini entries:

[callback_logstash]
pre_command = None

env:LOGSTASH_PRE_COMMAND
Executes command before run and result put to ansible_pre_command_output field.
server
string
Default:
"localhost"
ini entries:

[callback_logstash]
server = localhost

added in 1.0.0 of community.general
env:LOGSTASH_SERVER
Address of the Logstash server
type
string
Default:
"ansible"
ini entries:

[callback_logstash]
type = ansible

added in 1.0.0 of community.general
env:LOGSTASH_TYPE
Message type

Examples

ansible.cfg: |
    # Enable Callback plugin
    [defaults]
        callback_whitelist = community.general.logstash

    [callback_logstash]
        server = logstash.example.com
        port = 5000
        pre_command = git rev-parse HEAD
        type = ansible

11-input-tcp.conf: |
    # Enable Logstash TCP Input
    input {
            tcp {
                port => 5000
                codec => json
                add_field => { "[@metadata][beat]" => "notify" }
                add_field => { "[@metadata][type]" => "ansible" }
            }
        }

Authors

  • Yevhen Khmelenko (@ujenmr)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/logstash_callback.html