Hi, I am deploying logstash and its pipelines via ansible. I want to use the same pipeline on different installations. So I don't want to modify the elasticsearch output plugin in each pipeline. I want to use an environment Variable (configured for each logstash service in /etc/sysconfig/<LOGSTASH…

From my reading of the PR used to support this, you should be using export ES_HOSTS="host1:9200 host2:9200" and hosts => "${ES_HOSTS}".

How to use environment variable for logstash output elasticsearch plugin for multiple elasticsearch hosts?

system (system) Closed November 29, 2022, 3:08pm 6

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