# Dots filter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dots-filter/109754>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 30, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dots-filter/109754 "2017-11-30T13:23:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rinmalavi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rinmalavi/32/24876_2.png) [@rinmalavi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rinmalavi)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dots-filter/109754/1 "2017-11-30T13:23:33Z")

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Is what i am trying to do.  
So i added

dots {} to filter clause.  
And so I get:

Couldn't find any filter plugin named 'dots'. Are you sure this is correct? Trying to load the dots filter plugin resulted in this error: Problems loading the requested plugin named dots of type filter. Error: NameError NameError

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dots-filter/109754/2 "2017-12-01T10:51:43Z")

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dots is a codec, not a filter. It's typically used like this:

```
output { stdout { codec => dots } }
```

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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:** [December 29, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dots-filter/109754/3 "2017-12-29T10:52:10Z")

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