# Getting started - Kibana - ElasticSearch - logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-kibana-elasticsearch-logstash/339204>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 25, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-kibana-elasticsearch-logstash/339204 "2023-07-25T13:58:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rajdevworks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rajdevworks/32/66719_2.png) [@rajdevworks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajdevworks)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-kibana-elasticsearch-logstash/339204/1 "2023-07-25T13:58:47Z")

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Hello,

I have different json files which I would like to visualize into Kibana after ingesting them to Elasticsearch.

Where can I get started and do I need to define input/output filters?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-kibana-elasticsearch-logstash/339204/2 "2023-07-25T15:47:14Z")

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You can also use FSCrawler. It has a mode for this: [Local FS settings — FSCrawler 2.10-SNAPSHOT documentation](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/admin/fs/local-fs.html#indexing-json-docs)

HTH.

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**Author:** ![rajdevworks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rajdevworks/32/66719_2.png) [@rajdevworks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajdevworks)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-kibana-elasticsearch-logstash/339204/3 "2023-07-25T16:56:07Z")

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@dadoonet , Should I look at "FSCrawler" as an alternative to logstash?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-kibana-elasticsearch-logstash/339204/4 "2023-07-25T22:09:08Z")

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If it's just for testing purposes, you can try fscrawler as I think it's easy to get it up and running for this use case.

Otherwise yes you might be able to use Logstash.

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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:** [August 22, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-started-kibana-elasticsearch-logstash/339204/5 "2023-08-22T22:09:29Z")

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