# Disable logstash's binary log format
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-logstashs-binary-log-format/27694
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 19, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-logstashs-binary-log-format/27694 "2015-08-19T17:29:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@amaltson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amaltson)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-logstashs-binary-log-format/27694/1 "2015-08-19T17:29:50Z")
Hello all,
For some reason after a certain amount of time the logstash shipper's logs turn from text to binary. Is there any way to disable this or view the binary log format?
I've found a hard time finding anything on Google because of course "logstash binary log format" and other similar queries lead to discussions about logstash parsing binary logs and not the setting logstash seems to have 😉.
Thank you in advance!
All the best,
Arthur Maltson
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### Author:  [@amaltson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amaltson)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-logstashs-binary-log-format/27694/2 "2015-08-19T17:57:46Z")
It seems [I don't know how to use less correctly](http://superuser.com/a/772683/111255). Please disregard this post.
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### Author:  [@TInaTinaTian\_L](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TInaTinaTian_L)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-logstashs-binary-log-format/27694/3 "2015-08-19T18:04:18Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-logstashs-binary-log-format/27694/4 "2017-07-06T05:31:31Z")