# Filebeat Log Formats

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-log-formats/175795>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 8, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-log-formats/175795 "2019-04-08T08:40:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![johncam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@johncam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johncam)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-log-formats/175795/1 "2019-04-08T08:40:49Z")

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I am looking to ship a number of logs in non-JSON format to Logstash for parsing and transforming prior to being indexed.

Is this the best approach for indexing custom log files? Would changing our existing log format to JSON make this significantly easier?

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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 6, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-log-formats/175795/2 "2019-05-06T08:40:58Z")

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