- APM Guide: other versions:
- What is APM?
- Components and documentation
- Quick start
- Data Model
- Features
- How-to guides
- Manage storage
- Input settings
- Secure communication with APM agents
- API
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrade
- Release notes
- Legacy APM Overview
- Components and documentation
- Quick start guide
- Data Model
- Features
- Troubleshooting
- Breaking changes
- 7.15.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.14.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.13.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.12.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.11.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.10.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.9.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.8.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.7.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.6.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.5.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.4.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.3.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.2.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.1.0 APM Breaking changes
- 7.0.0 APM Breaking changes
- 6.8.0 APM Breaking changes
- 6.7.0 APM Breaking changes
- 6.6.0 APM Breaking changes
- 6.5.0 APM Breaking changes
- 6.4.0 APM Breaking changes
- Legacy APM Server Reference
- Get started
- Set up
- How-to guides
- Configure
- Secure
- Monitor
- API
- Explore data in Elasticsearch
- Exported fields
- APM Application Metrics fields
- APM Error fields
- APM Profile fields
- APM Sourcemap fields
- APM Span fields
- APM Span Metrics fields
- APM Transaction fields
- APM Transaction Metrics fields
- APM Transaction Metrics fields
- Beat fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Docker fields
- ECS fields
- Host fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Process fields
- System Metrics fields
- Troubleshoot
Change the output codec
editChange the output codec
editThis documentation refers to configuring the standalone (legacy) APM Server. This method of running APM Server will be deprecated and removed in a future release. Please consider upgrading to Fleet and the APM integration.
For outputs that do not require a specific encoding, you can change the encoding
by using the codec configuration. You can specify either the json or format
codec. By default the json codec is used.
json.pretty: If pretty is set to true, events will be nicely formatted. The default is false.
json.escape_html: If escape_html is set to true, html symbols will be escaped in strings. The default is false.
Example configuration that uses the json codec with pretty printing enabled to write events to the console:
output.console: codec.json: pretty: true escape_html: false
format.string: Configurable format string used to create a custom formatted message.
Example configurable that uses the format codec to print the events timestamp and message field to console:
output.console: codec.format: string: '%{[@timestamp]} %{[message]}'