# Collection of logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collection-of-logs/133590>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 28, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collection-of-logs/133590 "2018-05-28T23:01:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![abhat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@abhat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhat)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collection-of-logs/133590/1 "2018-05-28T23:01:03Z")

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Hi Team,

We are moving to containers and getting whole logs out of container is bit hectic.

Kibana is proving helpful by displaying the logs from last **n** hours.

So as of now I can see that Kibana can only display the logs and we can apply filters on it.

Is there a way we can dump the logs from Kibana to the text file (say for example all logs from last 12 hours).

Any help is much appreciated.

Kind Regards,  
Asif Bhat

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collection-of-logs/133590/2 "2018-05-28T23:09:41Z")

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> [@abhat](#):
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> Is there a way we can dump the logs from Kibana to the text file (say for example all logs from last 12 hours).

What are you wanting to achieve with this?

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**Author:** ![abhat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@abhat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhat)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collection-of-logs/133590/3 "2018-05-28T23:16:48Z")

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Sometimes we need to provide the logs to the **vendors / Service Providers** for further analysis (for analyzing performance issues or intermittent issues).

We can't give them access to kibana.

So was thinking of options to get those dumped in the text file.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collection-of-logs/133590/4 "2018-05-28T23:21:13Z")

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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:** [June 25, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collection-of-logs/133590/5 "2018-06-25T23:21:13Z")

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