:plugin: json_lines
:type: codec

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[id="plugins-{type}s-{plugin}"]

=== Json_lines codec plugin

include::{include_path}/plugin_header.asciidoc[]

==== Description

This codec will decode streamed JSON that is newline delimited.
Encoding will emit a single JSON string ending in a `@delimiter`
NOTE: Do not use this codec if your source input is line-oriented JSON, for
example, redis or file inputs. Rather, use the json codec.
More info: This codec is expecting to receive a stream (string) of newline
terminated lines. The file input will produce a line string without a newline.
Therefore this codec cannot work with line oriented inputs.

[id="plugins-{type}s-{plugin}-options"]
==== Json_lines Codec Configuration Options

[cols="<,<,<",options="header",]
|=======================================================================
|Setting |Input type|Required
| <<plugins-{type}s-{plugin}-charset>> |<<string,string>>, one of `["ASCII-8BIT", "UTF-8", "US-ASCII", "Big5", "Big5-HKSCS", "Big5-UAO", "CP949", "Emacs-Mule", "EUC-JP", "EUC-KR", "EUC-TW", "GB2312", "GB18030", "GBK", "ISO-8859-1", "ISO-8859-2", "ISO-8859-3", "ISO-8859-4", "ISO-8859-5", "ISO-8859-6", "ISO-8859-7", "ISO-8859-8", "ISO-8859-9", "ISO-8859-10", "ISO-8859-11", "ISO-8859-13", "ISO-8859-14", "ISO-8859-15", "ISO-8859-16", "KOI8-R", "KOI8-U", "Shift_JIS", "UTF-16BE", "UTF-16LE", "UTF-32BE", "UTF-32LE", "Windows-31J", "Windows-1250", "Windows-1251", "Windows-1252", "IBM437", "IBM737", "IBM775", "CP850", "IBM852", "CP852", "IBM855", "CP855", "IBM857", "IBM860", "IBM861", "IBM862", "IBM863", "IBM864", "IBM865", "IBM866", "IBM869", "Windows-1258", "GB1988", "macCentEuro", "macCroatian", "macCyrillic", "macGreek", "macIceland", "macRoman", "macRomania", "macThai", "macTurkish", "macUkraine", "CP950", "CP951", "IBM037", "stateless-ISO-2022-JP", "eucJP-ms", "CP51932", "EUC-JIS-2004", "GB12345", "ISO-2022-JP", "ISO-2022-JP-2", "CP50220", "CP50221", "Windows-1256", "Windows-1253", "Windows-1255", "Windows-1254", "TIS-620", "Windows-874", "Windows-1257", "MacJapanese", "UTF-7", "UTF8-MAC", "UTF-16", "UTF-32", "UTF8-DoCoMo", "SJIS-DoCoMo", "UTF8-KDDI", "SJIS-KDDI", "ISO-2022-JP-KDDI", "stateless-ISO-2022-JP-KDDI", "UTF8-SoftBank", "SJIS-SoftBank", "BINARY", "CP437", "CP737", "CP775", "IBM850", "CP857", "CP860", "CP861", "CP862", "CP863", "CP864", "CP865", "CP866", "CP869", "CP1258", "Big5-HKSCS:2008", "ebcdic-cp-us", "eucJP", "euc-jp-ms", "EUC-JISX0213", "eucKR", "eucTW", "EUC-CN", "eucCN", "CP936", "ISO2022-JP", "ISO2022-JP2", "ISO8859-1", "ISO8859-2", "ISO8859-3", "ISO8859-4", "ISO8859-5", "ISO8859-6", "CP1256", "ISO8859-7", "CP1253", "ISO8859-8", "CP1255", "ISO8859-9", "CP1254", "ISO8859-10", "ISO8859-11", "CP874", "ISO8859-13", "CP1257", "ISO8859-14", "ISO8859-15", "ISO8859-16", "CP878", "MacJapan", "ASCII", "ANSI_X3.4-1968", "646", "CP65000", "CP65001", "UTF-8-MAC", "UTF-8-HFS", "UCS-2BE", "UCS-4BE", "UCS-4LE", "CP932", "csWindows31J", "SJIS", "PCK", "CP1250", "CP1251", "CP1252", "external", "locale"]`|No
| <<plugins-{type}s-{plugin}-delimiter>> |<<string,string>>|No
|=======================================================================

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[id="plugins-{type}s-{plugin}-charset"]
===== `charset` 

  * Value can be any of: `ASCII-8BIT`, `UTF-8`, `US-ASCII`, `Big5`, `Big5-HKSCS`, `Big5-UAO`, `CP949`, `Emacs-Mule`, `EUC-JP`, `EUC-KR`, `EUC-TW`, `GB2312`, `GB18030`, `GBK`, `ISO-8859-1`, `ISO-8859-2`, `ISO-8859-3`, `ISO-8859-4`, `ISO-8859-5`, `ISO-8859-6`, `ISO-8859-7`, `ISO-8859-8`, `ISO-8859-9`, `ISO-8859-10`, `ISO-8859-11`, `ISO-8859-13`, `ISO-8859-14`, `ISO-8859-15`, `ISO-8859-16`, `KOI8-R`, `KOI8-U`, `Shift_JIS`, `UTF-16BE`, `UTF-16LE`, `UTF-32BE`, `UTF-32LE`, `Windows-31J`, `Windows-1250`, `Windows-1251`, `Windows-1252`, `IBM437`, `IBM737`, `IBM775`, `CP850`, `IBM852`, `CP852`, `IBM855`, `CP855`, `IBM857`, `IBM860`, `IBM861`, `IBM862`, `IBM863`, `IBM864`, `IBM865`, `IBM866`, `IBM869`, `Windows-1258`, `GB1988`, `macCentEuro`, `macCroatian`, `macCyrillic`, `macGreek`, `macIceland`, `macRoman`, `macRomania`, `macThai`, `macTurkish`, `macUkraine`, `CP950`, `CP951`, `IBM037`, `stateless-ISO-2022-JP`, `eucJP-ms`, `CP51932`, `EUC-JIS-2004`, `GB12345`, `ISO-2022-JP`, `ISO-2022-JP-2`, `CP50220`, `CP50221`, `Windows-1256`, `Windows-1253`, `Windows-1255`, `Windows-1254`, `TIS-620`, `Windows-874`, `Windows-1257`, `MacJapanese`, `UTF-7`, `UTF8-MAC`, `UTF-16`, `UTF-32`, `UTF8-DoCoMo`, `SJIS-DoCoMo`, `UTF8-KDDI`, `SJIS-KDDI`, `ISO-2022-JP-KDDI`, `stateless-ISO-2022-JP-KDDI`, `UTF8-SoftBank`, `SJIS-SoftBank`, `BINARY`, `CP437`, `CP737`, `CP775`, `IBM850`, `CP857`, `CP860`, `CP861`, `CP862`, `CP863`, `CP864`, `CP865`, `CP866`, `CP869`, `CP1258`, `Big5-HKSCS:2008`, `ebcdic-cp-us`, `eucJP`, `euc-jp-ms`, `EUC-JISX0213`, `eucKR`, `eucTW`, `EUC-CN`, `eucCN`, `CP936`, `ISO2022-JP`, `ISO2022-JP2`, `ISO8859-1`, `ISO8859-2`, `ISO8859-3`, `ISO8859-4`, `ISO8859-5`, `ISO8859-6`, `CP1256`, `ISO8859-7`, `CP1253`, `ISO8859-8`, `CP1255`, `ISO8859-9`, `CP1254`, `ISO8859-10`, `ISO8859-11`, `CP874`, `ISO8859-13`, `CP1257`, `ISO8859-14`, `ISO8859-15`, `ISO8859-16`, `CP878`, `MacJapan`, `ASCII`, `ANSI_X3.4-1968`, `646`, `CP65000`, `CP65001`, `UTF-8-MAC`, `UTF-8-HFS`, `UCS-2BE`, `UCS-4BE`, `UCS-4LE`, `CP932`, `csWindows31J`, `SJIS`, `PCK`, `CP1250`, `CP1251`, `CP1252`, `external`, `locale`
  * Default value is `"UTF-8"`

The character encoding used in this codec. Examples include `UTF-8` and
`CP1252`

JSON requires valid `UTF-8` strings, but in some cases, software that
emits JSON does so in another encoding (nxlog, for example). In
weird cases like this, you can set the charset setting to the
actual encoding of the text and logstash will convert it for you.

For nxlog users, you'll want to set this to `CP1252`

[id="plugins-{type}s-{plugin}-delimiter"]
===== `delimiter` 

  * Value type is <<string,string>>
  * Default value is `"\n"`

Change the delimiter that separates lines


