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[Docs] Backport to 6.0: Add udp prospector to list of types #4951

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13 changes: 10 additions & 3 deletions filebeat/docs/filebeat-options.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -32,9 +32,10 @@ filebeat.prospectors:

One of the following input types:

* log: Reads every line of the log file (default)
* stdin: Reads the standard in
* redis: Reads slow log entries from redis (experimental)
* log: Reads every line of the log file (default).
* stdin: Reads the standard in.
* redis: Reads slow log entries from redis (experimental).
* udp: Reads events over UDP. Also see <<max-message-size>>.

The value that you specify here is used as the `type` for each event published to Logstash and Elasticsearch.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -492,3 +493,9 @@ by assigning a higher limit of harvesters.

The `enabled` option can be used with each prospector to define if a prospector is enabled or not. By default, enabled is set to true.

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[[max-message-size]]
==== `max_message_size`

When used with `type: udp`, specifies the maximum size of the message received over UDP. The default is 10240.