# Best Practice for handling gz, bz2 compressed file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-for-handling-gz-bz2-compressed-file/74731
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [February 11, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-for-handling-gz-bz2-compressed-file/74731 "2017-02-11T01:25:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@vramakrishnan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vramakrishnan)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-for-handling-gz-bz2-compressed-file/74731/1 "2017-02-11T01:25:54Z")
1. Does Filebeat have capability to decode compressed file - gz, bz2 input ?
2. If not, what is the best practice suggested ? (filebeat in conjunction with other utilities, plugins etc)
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-for-handling-gz-bz2-compressed-file/74731/2 "2017-02-14T09:13:56Z")
Currently it doesn't. There is an ongoing discussion if we should support it. See [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/3070](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/3070) It would be very interesting to hear more about your use case here.
What you could do, is use a tool to unzip the content and use filebeat with stdin prospector to fetch the data.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2017, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-practice-for-handling-gz-bz2-compressed-file/74731/3 "2017-03-14T09:14:09Z")
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