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Offline Plugin Management [offline-plugins]
The Logstash plugin manager provides support for preparing offline plugin packs that you can use to install Logstash plugins on systems that don’t have Internet access.
This procedure requires a staging machine running Logstash that has access to a public or private Rubygems server. The staging machine downloads and packages all the files and dependencies required for offline installation.
Building Offline Plugin Packs [building-offline-packs]
An offline plugin pack is a compressed file that contains all the plugins your offline Logstash installation requires, along with the dependencies for those plugins.
To build an offline plugin pack:
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Make sure all the plugins that you want to package are installed on the staging server and that the staging server can access the Internet.
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Run the
bin/logstash-plugin prepare-offline-pack
subcommand to package the plugins and dependencies:bin/logstash-plugin prepare-offline-pack --output OUTPUT --overwrite [PLUGINS]
where:
OUTPUT
specifies the zip file where the compressed plugin pack will be written. The default file is/LOGSTASH_HOME/logstash-offline-plugins-9.0.0.zip
. If you are using 5.2.x and 5.3.0, this location should be a zip file whose contents will be overwritten.[PLUGINS]
specifies one or more plugins that you want to include in the pack.--overwrite
specifies if you want to override an existing file at the location
Examples:
bin/logstash-plugin prepare-offline-pack logstash-input-beats <1>
bin/logstash-plugin prepare-offline-pack logstash-filter-* <2>
bin/logstash-plugin prepare-offline-pack logstash-filter-* logstash-input-beats <3>
- Packages the Beats input plugin and any dependencies.
- Uses a wildcard to package all filter plugins and any dependencies.
- Packages all filter plugins, the Beats input plugin, and any dependencies.
::::{note} Downloading all dependencies for the specified plugins may take some time, depending on the plugins listed. ::::
Installing Offline Plugin Packs [installing-offline-packs]
To install an offline plugin pack:
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Move the compressed bundle to the machine where you want to install the plugins.
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Run the
bin/logstash-plugin install
subcommand and pass in the file URI of the offline plugin pack.bin/logstash-plugin install file:///c:/path/to/logstash-offline-plugins-9.0.0.zip
bin/logstash-plugin install file:///path/to/logstash-offline-plugins-9.0.0.zip
This command expects a file URI, so make sure you use forward slashes and specify the full path to the pack.
Updating Offline Plugins [updating-offline-packs]
To update offline plugins, you update the plugins on the staging server and then use the same process that you followed to build and install the plugin pack:
- On the staging server, run the
bin/logstash-plugin update
subcommand to update the plugins. See Updating plugins. - Create a new version of the plugin pack. See Building Offline Plugin Packs.
- Install the new version of the plugin pack. See Installing Offline Plugin Packs.