What is the purpose of type field in Input section

[gaurav1424 (Gaurav Dalvi)]

Thanks It worked.
Could you please take your valuable time and try to reply to my question here ?

Syslog date without year

I am following this thread : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29384754/syslog-timestamp-without-year My requirement is : If syslog message comes with year in timestamp, I should match in date filter and take that year as time and put it in elasticsearch, If there is not year in syslog timestamp, then I need to have some default year / some default value which I will know in future, How can I do that ? My date filter is : date { target => "@timestamp" match => [ "syslog_timestamp", "MMM …

I appreciate your help.