# Exapmle of data reading not from log but from keyboard (stdin)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exapmle-of-data-reading-not-from-log-but-from-keyboard-stdin/179207>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exapmle-of-data-reading-not-from-log-but-from-keyboard-stdin/179207 "2019-05-01T13:39:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![kumar4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kumar4/32/48326_2.png) [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exapmle-of-data-reading-not-from-log-but-from-keyboard-stdin/179207/1 "2019-05-01T13:39:14Z")

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hi everyone, can you help i need to get data from keyboard text and display the data containing the word "cat" on kibana how can i do that, it will be veru helpful if yo give the content of logstach and how to read the user data from keyvboard

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exapmle-of-data-reading-not-from-log-but-from-keyboard-stdin/179207/2 "2019-05-01T14:09:48Z")

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Please do not post duplicate topics.

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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:** [May 29, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exapmle-of-data-reading-not-from-log-but-from-keyboard-stdin/179207/3 "2019-05-29T14:09:50Z")

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