bencode.md

Bencode input plugin

Status : experimental plugin, unit tested and maintained.

This plugin is used to decode Bencode messages receive data over a udp socket.

Example 1: Regular mode: Config using url: input://bencode://0.0.0.0:12345

Config using logstash format:

input {
  bencode {
    host => 0.0.0.0
    port => 12345
  }
}

Parameters:

• host: listen address for the bencode udp server : can be 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1 ...
• port: port for the ws server.
• type: to specify the log type, to faciliate crawling in kibana. Example: type=tls. No default value.
• unserializer: more doc at unserializers. Default value to json_logstash.