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=== Google Cloud Storage Input Plugin

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==== Description

Extracts events from files in a Google Cloud Storage bucket.

Example use-cases:

 * Read https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/[Stackdriver logs] from a Cloud Storage bucket into Elastic.
 * Read gzipped logs from cold-storage into Elastic.
 * Restore data from an Elastic dump.
 * Extract data from Cloud Storage, transform it with Logstash and load it into BigQuery.

Note: While this project is partially maintained by Google, this is not an official Google product.


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