Why codec dots not working

Elastic Stack Logstash
1

Hello there,

Any idea why codec docs is not working at all?

`input {
file {
path => "/opt/logstash/prod-debug/*.log"
start_position => "beginning"
ignore_older => 2678400
}
tcp {
port => 5000
}
}

filter {
grok {
patterns_dir => ["/etc/logstash/conf.d/patterns"]
match => ["message", "%{BACKEND_LOG:backend_log}"]
}
if "_grokparsefailure" in [tags] {
drop { }
}
json {
source => "json_to_parse"
target => "details"
}
date {
match => ["backend_timestamp", "yyyyMMdd-HH:mm:ss.SSS"]
target => "@timestamp"
timezone => "UTC"
}
}

output {
stdout {
codec => dots
}
elasticsearch {
hosts => "elasticsearch:9200"
}
}
`

I don't see any dots while processing huge files (with lines)

Thanks in advance for your help!

Andrey

2

FYI, if you want to code format some text, you need 3 `'s, ie ```.

However this is probably your sincedb, https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-file.html#_tracking_of_current_position_in_watched_files