# Elasticsearch and syslog-ng

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-syslog-ng/256474>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 24, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-syslog-ng/256474 "2020-11-24T09:18:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![atamc3rb3r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@atamc3rb3r](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atamc3rb3r)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-syslog-ng/256474/1 "2020-11-24T09:18:59Z")

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Hello,

`I have deployed my elasticsearch (ver. 7.10.0 on Linux) with Kibana and syslog-ng.` `Syslog-ng server receives logs data from network devices on port UDP/514 and using module elasticsearch-http() to send all data to elasticsearch (localhost:9200/_bulk).` `It works really fine. My question is - is it possible to import all old data from log files to elasticsearch directly and skip the step with syslog-ng?`

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-syslog-ng/256474/2 "2020-11-25T00:56:01Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

You could use something like Filebeat to do this.

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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 23, 2020, 12:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-syslog-ng/256474/3 "2020-12-23T00:56:07Z")

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