# Filter cef

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-cef/181215
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [May 15, 2019, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-cef/181215 "2019-05-15T14:22:24Z")
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#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-cef/181215/4 "2019-05-16T13:36:35Z")

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Is there a way to ingest that data as cef, not as a json? Because from my testing it looks that the pipeline to pipeline communication is only in JSON.

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