logstash/docs/reference/plugins-codecs-jdots.md

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Jdots codec plugin [plugins-codecs-jdots]

{{ls}} Core Plugin. The jdots codec plugin cannot be installed or uninstalled independently of {{ls}}.

Getting help [_getting_help_185]

For questions about the plugin, open a topic in the Discuss forums. For bugs or feature requests, open an issue in Github.

Description [_description_184]

This codec renders each processed event as a dot (.). It is typically used with the java_stdout output to provide approximate event throughput. It is especially useful when combined with pv and wc -c as follows:

  bin/logstash -f /path/to/config/with/jdots/codec | pv | wc -c