# How to parse json into logstash to display data in kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-json-into-logstash-to-display-data-in-kibana/121169
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-json-into-logstash-to-display-data-in-kibana/121169 "2018-02-23T05:41:51Z")
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### Author:  [@Rajkumar\_idsil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rajkumar_idsil)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 5:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-json-into-logstash-to-display-data-in-kibana/121169/1 "2018-02-23T05:41:51Z")
logstash.conf
input {
file {
path =\> "E:\Rajkumar\ELK-InputOutput\Input.log"
start\_position =\> "beginning"
type =\> "json"
}
}
filter {
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts =\> "[http://192.168.77.59:9200](http://192.168.77.59:9200)"
index =\> "input\_files"
document\_type =\> "employeeData"
document\_id =\> "%{@timestamp}"
}
stdout { codec =\> rubydebug }
}
Input.log
{"account\_number":1,"balance":39225,"firstname":"Amber","lastname":"Duke","age":32,"gender":"M"}
how to display into kibana into grid format so that we can create pie chart?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-json-into-logstash-to-display-data-in-kibana/121169/2 "2018-02-23T07:07:26Z")
What you have should work. If it doesn't it's probably related to sincedb, so read the file input documentation and the hundreds of past threads that have discussed this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-parse-json-into-logstash-to-display-data-in-kibana/121169/3 "2018-03-23T07:07:37Z")
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