# Export index for validation **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 18, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-index-for-validation/144981 "2018-08-18T01:23:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pavanneeli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pavanneeli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pavanneeli)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-index-for-validation/144981/1 "2018-08-18T01:23:33Z")
Hi Everyone, my developer is reading a index from ES by building a hive table, as a QE I want to validate the data by exporting the index as a json or csv file based on some filter conditions, how can I do that? Thanks in advance for your valuable suggestions ---
**Author:** ![thiago](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thiago/32/32096_2.png) [@thiago](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiago)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-index-for-validation/144981/2 "2018-08-19T18:24:52Z")
One good way is using Logstash and elasticsearch input plugin and file output plugin. ---
**Author:** ![pavanneeli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pavanneeli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pavanneeli)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-index-for-validation/144981/3 "2018-08-20T01:28:58Z")
Thanks thiago, is there any sample or pseudo code that you can point me to? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-index-for-validation/144981/4 "2018-09-17T01:29:03Z")
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