# A really missing product: logs reader

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-really-missing-product-logs-reader/82132>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 12, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-really-missing-product-logs-reader/82132 "2017-04-12T09:52:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ebuildy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ebuildy/32/6070_2.png) [@ebuildy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ebuildy)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-really-missing-product-logs-reader/82132/1 "2017-04-12T09:52:45Z")

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We use ELK stack to get logs, store and visualize.

Kibana charts are nice, but it's not very good to read raw text logs.

I think this is something missing from x-pack products: a logs reader.

A UI to read logs stored in elasticsearch with features:

- tail in realtime
- search
- alerting
- fancy text aggregation / extraction

Do you know if a such product exist or is in road map?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-really-missing-product-logs-reader/82132/2 "2017-05-10T10:03:57Z")

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