community.general.logstash_plugin – Manage Logstash plugins

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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

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

Synopsis

  • Manages Logstash plugins.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
name
string / required
Install plugin with that name.
plugin_bin
path
Default:
"/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash-plugin"
Specify logstash-plugin to use for plugin management.
proxy_host
string
Proxy host to use during plugin installation.
proxy_port
string
Proxy port to use during plugin installation.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Apply plugin state.
version
string
Specify plugin Version of the plugin to install. If plugin exists with previous version, it will NOT be updated.

Examples

- name: Install Logstash beats input plugin
  community.general.logstash_plugin:
    state: present
    name: logstash-input-beats

- name: Install specific version of a plugin
  community.general.logstash_plugin:
    state: present
    name: logstash-input-syslog
    version: '3.2.0'

- name: Uninstall Logstash plugin
  community.general.logstash_plugin:
    state: absent
    name: logstash-filter-multiline

- name: Install Logstash plugin with alternate heap size
  community.general.logstash_plugin:
    state: present
    name: logstash-input-beats
  environment:
    LS_JAVA_OPTS: "-Xms256m -Xmx256m"

Authors

  • Loic Blot (@nerzhul)

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