# Does filebeats import MongoDB collections to ES?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeats-import-mongodb-collections-to-es/281965>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 19, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeats-import-mongodb-collections-to-es/281965 "2021-08-19T13:00:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![evo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/evo/32/77073_2.png) [@evo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/evo)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeats-import-mongodb-collections-to-es/281965/1 "2021-08-19T13:00:08Z")

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Hi,

Sorry for the basic question but I am finding the docs a bit confusing.

I am trying to create an ES search index for a large (1TB) mongodb and I am trying to find out how to do that.

I cam across filebeat and saw this moduile: [MongoDB module | Filebeat Reference [7.14] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-module-mongodb.html)

The docs talk about logs and it seems to be for monitoring database performance but what I want to do is create an index in ES for the large mongodb collection.

Is this the thing I need or something else?

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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:** [September 16, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeats-import-mongodb-collections-to-es/281965/2 "2021-09-16T15:00:53Z")

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