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/usr/share/logstash/bin/ingest-convert.sh

Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data

From logstash-8.19 8.19.24-r1 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running ingest-convert.sh --help (exit 1) · terse output. permalink

Option (* = required)  Description
---------------------  -----------
--append-stdio         Flag to append stdin and stdout as
                         outputs instead of the default ES
                         output.
* --input <URI>        Input JSON file location URI. Only
                         supports 'file://' as URI schema.
* --output <URI>       Output Logstash DSL file location URI.
                         Only supports 'file://' as URI
                         schema.
Exception in thread "main" joptsimple.UnrecognizedOptionException: 'help' is not a recognized option
	at joptsimple.OptionException.unrecognizedOption(OptionException.java:89)
	at joptsimple.OptionParser.handleLongOptionToken(OptionParser.java:429)
	at joptsimple.OptionParserState$2.handleArgument(OptionParserState.java:56)
	at joptsimple.OptionParser.parse(OptionParser.java:361)
	at org.logstash.ingest.JsUtil.convert(JsUtil.java:96)
	at org.logstash.ingest.Pipeline.main(Pipeline.java:35)
Options (1)
OptionDescriptionSource
--append-stdioFlag to append stdin and stdout as outputs instead of the default ES output.help

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.