# Avro data format convert into json format
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avro-data-format-convert-into-json-format/116873
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [January 24, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avro-data-format-convert-into-json-format/116873 "2018-01-24T13:26:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@vamsikrishna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vamsikrishna)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avro-data-format-convert-into-json-format/116873/1 "2018-01-24T13:26:37Z")
Hiii,
The data comming from kafka by using kafkastream s ,It s avro format then i will try to convert json but it s not work,Please can help me
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avro-data-format-convert-into-json-format/116873/2 "2018-01-25T17:32:25Z")
You can pull Avro data from Kafka using Logstash.
```auto
input {
kafka {
codec => avro {
schema_uri => "/tmp/schema.avsc"
}
}
}
```
Reference: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-codecs-avro.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-codecs-avro.html)
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### Author:  [@vamsikrishna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vamsikrishna)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avro-data-format-convert-into-json-format/116873/3 "2018-01-25T17:48:04Z")
Yeah but affter getting the avro data from kafka i need to convert json then again push into kafka,
i have trying converting json but when i reading binary (avro) data by using GenaricDatumReader it throws ArrayIndexOutOf BoudnceException,
Thank you ,
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### Author:  [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avro-data-format-convert-into-json-format/116873/4 "2018-01-25T19:48:44Z")
> [@vamsikrishna](#):
>
> i have trying converting json but when i reading binary (avro) data by using GenaricDatumReader it throws ArrayIndexOutOf BoudnceException,
Please clarify where you are seeing this error. Is this an error you are seeing with Logstash?
> [@vamsikrishna](#):
>
> Please can help me
What specifically do you want help with?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/avro-data-format-convert-into-json-format/116873/5 "2018-02-21T13:27:01Z")
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