# Hash used in Elastic?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hash-used-in-elastic/201326>\
**Category:** SIEM\
**Created:** [September 26, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hash-used-in-elastic/201326 "2019-09-26T23:42:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![zeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/57b2e6/32.png) [@zeno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zeno)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hash-used-in-elastic/201326/1 "2019-09-26T23:42:10Z")

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Hi so i am studying and using Kibana open source and wanted to know whether kibana open source by default creates hashes of files ? The document of elastic says that it does use SHA256, SHA-1 & MD5 but as per the auditbeat logs there were no hashes found.

I have tried searching it but got no luck. would really appreciate if someone can explain it. thank you in advance

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hash-used-in-elastic/201326/2 "2019-09-27T10:27:08Z")

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Hi, to clarify, you are using Auditbeat? The file integrity module from Auditbeat, or something else?

In case of FIM, see the `hashes_type` setting here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/auditbeat-module-file\_integrity.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/auditbeat-module-file_integrity.html) The default is SHA1 but others can be enabled.

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**Author:** ![zeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/57b2e6/32.png) [@zeno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zeno)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hash-used-in-elastic/201326/3 "2019-09-27T10:49:08Z")

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yes using Auditbeat. so apart from just monitoring the logs it also calculates hash as well !

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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:** [October 25, 2019, 11:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hash-used-in-elastic/201326/4 "2019-10-25T11:00:40Z")

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