Cannot use \n as a terminator that isn't the default

[DustinChaloupka]

Using the split filter and not specifying a terminator (by default uses \n) works fine, as in it splits on newlines. However, if I do specify the terminator as follows:

split {
  terminator => "\n"
}

Then it does not work, as in it does not split on newlines. I took a peek at the source code and it did not seem that this should be a problem as it is just a string representation though...

The use case I had found this in was when trying to actually split on \n\n instead.

[jordansissel]

There's an open ticket for supporting escaped characters somewhere in the logstash repo.

For now, you can put a literal newline:

split {
  terminator => "
"
}

[DustinChaloupka]

The workaround works for now, thanks!