# Converting GUIDS to readable names

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-guids-to-readable-names/202255>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-guids-to-readable-names/202255 "2019-10-03T23:42:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![grazer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@grazer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grazer)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-guids-to-readable-names/202255/1 "2019-10-03T23:42:35Z")

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Hello,

I'm parsing my exchange message trackinglogs and I want to convert GUIDS to Mailbox database names in logstash, for example;

"MDB:f7b324b2-7cb3-4225-8346-6526d7c84674 "=\> DB01

thanks

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-guids-to-readable-names/202255/2 "2019-10-04T01:55:30Z")

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You should be able to do this using the translate filter.

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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:** [November 1, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-guids-to-readable-names/202255/3 "2019-11-01T02:05:50Z")

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