synlay / logstash-filter-htmlentities

Logstash filter for decoding (X)HTML entities from event fields

Logstash Filter HTMLEntities Plugin

This is a plugin for Logstash.

It is fully free and fully open source. The license is MIT, see LICENSE for further infos.

Documentation

This filter will decode (X)HTML entities from a given source field and store the result to the target field.

1. Configuration

filter {
  htmlentities {
    source => "test_source_field"
    target => "test_target_field"
  }
}

This configuration will encode the source field test_source_field e.q. with data "Examples & Explanations" to "Examples & Explanations" and store the result to the field test_target_field.

Developing

For further instructions on howto develop on logstash plugins, please see the documentation of the official logstash-filter-example.