diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 53045b4..5cdd539 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## 2.1.0
+ - Add in the increment "data type" to increment keys in redis as well as an expire option to reset it.
+
 ## 2.0.0
  - Plugins were updated to follow the new shutdown semantic, this mainly allows Logstash to instruct input plugins to terminate gracefully, 
    instead of using Thread.raise on the plugins' threads. Ref: https://github.com/elastic/logstash/pull/3895
diff --git a/lib/logstash/outputs/redis.rb b/lib/logstash/outputs/redis.rb
index 9274f8f..695d7a7 100644
--- a/lib/logstash/outputs/redis.rb
+++ b/lib/logstash/outputs/redis.rb
@@ -58,10 +58,15 @@ class LogStash::Outputs::Redis < LogStash::Outputs::Base
   # TODO set required true
   config :key, :validate => :string, :required => false
 
-  # Either list or channel.  If `redis_type` is list, then we will set
-  # RPUSH to key. If `redis_type` is channel, then we will PUBLISH to `key`.
+  # Either list, channel, or increment. If `redis_type` is list or increment, then we
+  # will set RPUSH to key. If `redis_type` is channel, then we will PUBLISH to `key`.
   # TODO set required true
-  config :data_type, :validate => [ "list", "channel" ], :required => false
+  config :data_type, :validate => [ "list", "channel", "increment" ], :required => false
+
+  # If using increment, set the key to expire at this interval in seconds if not
+  # set, key will just keep increasing.
+  # TODO set required true
+  config :expire, :validate => :number, :required => false, :default => 0
 
   # Set to true if you want Redis to batch up values and send 1 RPUSH command
   # instead of one command per value to push on the list.  Note that this only
@@ -167,6 +172,15 @@ def receive(event)
       if @data_type == 'list'
         congestion_check(key)
         @redis.rpush(key, payload)
+      elsif @data_type == 'increment'
+        if @expire == 0
+          # if we don't need an expire, increment forever, and ever
+          @redis.incr(key)
+        else
+          # in order to ensure that new keys are given an expire, we need to use some lua
+          lua_code = "local v = redis.call('INCR', KEYS[1]) if v == 1 then redis.call('EXPIRE', KEYS[1], KEYS[2]) end return v"
+          @redis.eval(lua_code, [key, @expire])
+        end
       else
         @redis.publish(key, payload)
       end
diff --git a/logstash-output-redis.gemspec b/logstash-output-redis.gemspec
index b78d126..7b0e498 100644
--- a/logstash-output-redis.gemspec
+++ b/logstash-output-redis.gemspec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.name            = 'logstash-output-redis'
-  s.version         = '2.0.2'
+  s.version         = '2.1.0'
   s.licenses        = ['Apache License (2.0)']
   s.summary         = "This output will send events to a Redis queue using RPUSH"
   s.description     = "This gem is a logstash plugin required to be installed on top of the Logstash core pipeline using $LS_HOME/bin/plugin install gemname. This gem is not a stand-alone program"
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.metadata = { "logstash_plugin" => "true", "logstash_group" => "output" }
 
   # Gem dependencies
-  s.add_runtime_dependency "logstash-core", ">= 2.0.0.beta2", "< 3.0.0"
+  #s.add_runtime_dependency "logstash-core", ">= 2.0.0.beta2", "< 3.0.0"
 
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'redis'
   s.add_runtime_dependency 'stud'