# 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")
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### Author: ![daved](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@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")

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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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