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title: Transforming data
description: With over 200 plugins in the Logstash plugin ecosystem, it’s sometimes challenging to choose the best plugin to meet your data processing needs. In this...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/logstash/transforming-data
products:
  - Logstash
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Transforming data
With over 200 plugins in the Logstash plugin ecosystem, it’s sometimes challenging to choose the best plugin to meet your data processing needs. In this section, we’ve collected a list of popular plugins and organized them according to their processing capabilities:
- [Performing Core Operations](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/logstash/core-operations)
- [Deserializing Data](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/logstash/data-deserialization)
- [Extracting Fields and Wrangling Data](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/logstash/field-extraction)
- [Enriching Data with Lookups](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/logstash/lookup-enrichment)

Also see [*Filter plugins*](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/lsr/filter-plugins) and [*Codec plugins*](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/lsr/codec-plugins) for the full list of available data processing plugins.