# How can I pick logs from a specific directory and display on Kibana dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-pick-logs-from-a-specific-directory-and-display-on-kibana-dashboard/152166>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-pick-logs-from-a-specific-directory-and-display-on-kibana-dashboard/152166 "2018-10-12T06:41:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Muhammad\_Hasan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@Muhammad\_Hasan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad_Hasan)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-pick-logs-from-a-specific-directory-and-display-on-kibana-dashboard/152166/1 "2018-10-12T06:41:47Z")

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I am a newbie on elastic-stack. I setup a elastic-stack and filebeat on Ubuntu 16.04 on local environment. Now I want to read log files from a specific directory through Filebeat. In my case "LogFile" is my directory which is placed on Ubuntu desktop. The path of my LogFile is "/home/owais/Desktop/LogFile" I want to know how to read the logs from that directory and display on Kibana dashboard.

Thanks for the help

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-pick-logs-from-a-specific-directory-and-display-on-kibana-dashboard/152166/2 "2018-10-15T22:51:50Z")

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See [Filebeat Getting Started Guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-getting-started.html) and [Getting Started with the Elastic Stack guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-get-started/6.4/get-started-elastic-stack.html).

The guides contain the commands you need to run the Filebeat, Elasticsearch and Kibana.

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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:** [November 12, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-pick-logs-from-a-specific-directory-and-display-on-kibana-dashboard/152166/3 "2018-11-12T22:51:51Z")

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