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Plugins Info APIedit

This functionality is experimental and may be changed or removed completely in a future release.
The plugins info API gets information about all Logstash plugins that are currently installed.
This API basically returns the output of running the bin/logstash-plugin list --verbose
command.
GET /_node/plugins
The output is a JSON document.
Example response:
{ "total": 91, "plugins": [ { "name": "logstash-codec-collectd", "version": "3.0.2" }, { "name": "logstash-codec-dots", "version": "3.0.2" }, { "name": "logstash-codec-edn", "version": "3.0.2" }, . . . ]