Does File input support for compressed files in logstash

Question

I'm trying to read files from compressed format files to parse it as input. Here are the file formats gzip, zip,tar.gz

I referred the two links but haven't get much information.

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/zlib/rdoc/Zlib/GzipReader.html

Parsing a Zip file and extracting records from text files

I'm seeking for the example of how to writing codec to read the compressed files? Is any other alternate solution to read compressed files?

Thanks Deva

Answer 1

From looking at the code, logstash 1.4's file{} input does not handle gzip'ed files. It looks like this is still true in 1.5.

Note that the s3{} input does handle gzip'ed files, so you could bring that code forward fairly easily.