Jordan Sissel

I haven't yet confirmed this. Not sure if anyone else has reproduced it either.

@joshuaspence I'm not against this, but I have some thoughts: 1) /etc doesn't exist on windows. 2) If this were a default, it would be a change in behavior we'd...

I'm open to that. We used to have a flag (--patterns-path? I forget) but I removed it because Grok was they only plugin (out of hundreds) where there was a...

@joshuaspence Since we have a `path.settings` now in Logstash (as of 5.0), I think having a namespace available for each plugin to set defaults might be doable. Can you open...

Maybe related to #34 or #35.

+1 This is a relic of The Land Before Time (ancient logstash) when there was a `--grok-patterns-path` flag that is now long-gone.

Grok is primarily for parsing, not modifying data. The mutate filter (since it does text replacement already), or a new filter, feels like a better place to implement this proposal.

Otherwise, I am in favor of this feature.

You can do this today: ``` CCN_MASTER [1-2]{16} CCN_VISA [2-3]{15} CCN_AMEX [3-4]{14} CCN_MAESTRO [4-5]{13} # Create a pattern called CCN that matches any of the above: CCN %{CCN_MASTER}|%{CCN_VISA}|%{CCN_AMEX}|%{CCN_MAESTRO} ```

> Can anyone please confirm if the fix is correct? Is the bug mentioned anywhere? I am not seeing a description of the bad behavior, so I'm not quite able...