logstash/docs/flags.md

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Command-line flags

Agent

The logstash agent has the following flags (also try using the '--help' flag)

--config CONFIGFILE

Load the logstash config from a specific file

--log FILE

Log to a given path. Default is to log to stdout

-v

Increase verbosity. There are multiple levels of verbosity available with '-vvv' currently being the highest

--pluginpath PLUGIN_PATH

A colon-delimted path to find other logstash plugins in

Web UI

--log FILE

Log to a given path. Default is stdout.

--address ADDRESS

Address on which to start webserver. Default is 0.0.0.0.

--port PORT

Port on which to start webserver. Default is 9292.

--backend URL

The backend URL to use. Default is elasticserach://localhost:9200/