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compress_lz4

Compresses a stream of bytes using lz4 compression.

compress_lz4 [level=int]

The compress_lz4 operator compresses bytes in a pipeline incrementally.

The compression level to use. The supported values depend on the codec used. If omitted, the default level for the codec is used.

Export all events in a Lz4-compressed NDJSON file

Section titled “Export all events in a Lz4-compressed NDJSON file”
export
write_ndjson
compress_lz4
save_file "/tmp/backup.json.lz4"

Recompress a Lz4-compressed file at a different compression level

Section titled “Recompress a Lz4-compressed file at a different compression level”
load_file "in.lz4"
decompress_lz4
compress_lz4 level=18
save_file "out.lz4"

compress_brotli, compress_bz2, compress_gzip, compress_zstd, decompress_lz4