# Elasticsearch and gzip

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-gzip/2168>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 9, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-gzip/2168 "2015-06-09T00:57:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bdunbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@bdunbar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdunbar)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-gzip/2168/1 "2015-06-09T00:57:52Z")

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New ES user. Got the ELK stack built. Now I'm importing just north of 100Gb in log files, from 2014.

They are, of course, gzip'd.

Can I do this with the '[file](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-file.html)' ? Or do I need to throw it at ES with curl?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-gzip/2168/2 "2015-06-09T02:06:14Z")

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Or use input stdin:

```
zcat file | bin/logstash -f logstash.conf
```

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**Author:** ![bdunbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@bdunbar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdunbar)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-gzip/2168/3 "2015-06-09T04:09:25Z")

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Thank you, David.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-gzip/2168/4 "2017-07-06T00:08:55Z")

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