# \[ANNOUNCEMENT\] logstash-filter-percolate released

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-logstash-filter-percolate-released/52340>\
**Category:** Community Ecosystem\
**Created:** [June 9, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-logstash-filter-percolate-released/52340 "2016-06-09T14:20:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![val](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/val/32/138203_2.png) [@val](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/val)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-logstash-filter-percolate-released/52340/1 "2016-06-09T14:20:56Z")

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A new Logstash filter called `logstash-filter-percolate` is now available to percolate events on the fly.  
The original motivation came from [this issue](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/2187#issuecomment-216760668) and the need to leverage the percolator while processing events in Logstash.

The filter is available here: [https://github.com/consulthys/logstash-filter-percolate](https://github.com/consulthys/logstash-filter-percolate)

It is worth noting, though, that this filter is only useful if you're using ES 2.x and earlier. The reason for this is that in ES 5.0 alpha2, the [Percolate API has been deprecated](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/breaking_50_percolator.html#_percolate_and_multi_percolator_apis) in favor of a new [`percolate` query](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/query-dsl-percolate-query.html) (see [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/17560](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/17560)) which will run like any other normal DSL query, and thus, allow the use of the existing [`elasticsearch`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-elasticsearch.html) Logstash filter in order to percolate documents on the fly.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-logstash-filter-percolate-released/52340/2 "2017-07-05T21:47:20Z")

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