# Enquiry about sampling in elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enquiry-about-sampling-in-elasticsearch/266092
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [March 3, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enquiry-about-sampling-in-elasticsearch/266092 "2021-03-03T11:10:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@iammanmale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iammanmale)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enquiry-about-sampling-in-elasticsearch/266092/1 "2021-03-03T11:10:49Z")
As we want to reduce the amount log indexing into ES nodes, i would like to know if filebeat or logstash has filters to do sampling? For example, can the filebeat push only 1 of every 5 lines from the log files to logstash? Or can logstash can push only 1 of every 5 lines to ES nodes?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enquiry-about-sampling-in-elasticsearch/266092/2 "2021-03-31T11:11:41Z")
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