# Can we use fileBeat to send jSON logs?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-filebeat-to-send-json-logs/116563
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [January 23, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-filebeat-to-send-json-logs/116563 "2018-01-23T01:11:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jpereira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpereira)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-filebeat-to-send-json-logs/116563/1 "2018-01-23T01:11:15Z")
Hi folks,
I have some logs on my system that are jSON payload and I would like to know if can I use the "beat" to handle/ship the logs to the ES.
e.g: fileBeat can do that? I have tried, but non-success.
````auto
filebeat.prospectors:
- type: log
enabled: true
encoding: plain
exclude_files: ['.gz$']
scan_frequency: 1s
paths:
- /var/log/syslog-ng/json/node-token/*.log
input_type: log
# Output
output.elasticsearch:
protocol: https
username: "myuser"
password: "mypass"
hosts: ["es.intra.net"]```
````
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### Author:  [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-filebeat-to-send-json-logs/116563/2 "2018-01-23T02:16:59Z")
Hello @jpereira,
Yes it's possible to process logs that have a JSON payload using the json options for the [prospector](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.1/configuration-filebeat-options.html#config-json)
You can get a bit more details on this [discuss post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-json-data-with-filebeat/80008/2?u=pierhugues) or this [blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/structured-logging-filebeat)
Thanks
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### Author:  [@jpereira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpereira)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-filebeat-to-send-json-logs/116563/3 "2018-01-23T22:24:59Z")
@pierhugues Thank you for taking the time to respond. Now is working perfectly!
ps: I have others issues, but I will create a new ticket.
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### Author:  [@daved](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daved)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-filebeat-to-send-json-logs/116563/4 "2018-01-23T22:37:07Z")
Also check out this answer which has the stuff for the (latest) 6.1 elastic stack: [Custom filebeat template for JSON log lines](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-filebeat-template-for-json-log-lines/114761/5)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-use-filebeat-to-send-json-logs/116563/5 "2018-02-20T22:37:16Z")
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