title: Outputting UDP From Logstash
body: <p>I have some  logs that I want to use logstash to collate . It will be the logstash agent as a shipper on the source servers going to a central logging server . I want to use UDP from the shipper to the central log so I can be totally isolated should the logger fail ( I dont want the 70 odd production servers affected in any way ) . The only way I can see of using udp for the transport is to output using  syslog format . Does anyone know of a way I can output UDP natively from logstash ? ( The docs hint at it but I must be missing something on the TCP side ?) </p>