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== Introduction

ECS loggers are formatter/encoder plugins for your favorite logging libraries.
They make it easy to format your logs into ECS-compatible JSON.

TIP: Want to learn more about ECS, ECS logging, and other available language plugins?
See the {ecs-logging-ref}/intro.html[ECS logging guide].

Ready to jump into `ecs-logging-python`? <<installation,Get started>>.

If you'd like to try out a tutorial using Python ECS logging, see {cloud}/ec-getting-started-search-use-cases-python-logs.html[Ingest logs from a Python application using Filebeat].
