title: Does File input support for compressed files in logstash
body: <p>I'm trying to read files from compressed format files to parse it as input. Here are the file formats <strong>gzip, zip,tar.gz</strong> </p>
  
  <p>I referred the two links but haven't get much information.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/zlib/rdoc/Zlib/GzipReader.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/zlib/rdoc/Zlib/GzipReader.html</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11248791/parsing-a-zip-file-and-extracting-records-from-text-files">Parsing a Zip file and extracting records from text files</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm seeking for the example of how to writing codec to read the compressed files?
  Is any other alternate solution to read compressed files?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks
  Deva</p>