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add a note JSON is in ECS format
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mshustov committed Mar 3, 2021
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### Pattern layout
With `pattern` layout it's possible to define a string pattern with special placeholders `%conversion_pattern` (see the table below) that
will be replaced with data from the actual log message. By default the following pattern is used:
will be replaced with data from the actual log message. By default the following pattern is used:
`[%date][%level][%logger] %message`. Also `highlight` option can be enabled for `pattern` layout so that
some parts of the log message are highlighted with different colors that may be quite handy if log messages are forwarded
to the terminal with color support.
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Outputs the process ID.

### JSON layout
With `json` layout log messages will be formatted as JSON strings that include timestamp, log level, context name, message
With `json` layout log messages will be formatted as JSON strings in [ECS format](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/ecs/current/ecs-reference.html) that includes a timestamp, log level, context name, message
text and any other metadata that may be associated with the log message itself.

## Appenders
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