# I want to import a 3GB system file to ELK in one go **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 9, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-import-a-3gb-system-file-to-elk-in-one-go/240572 "2020-07-09T16:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Deepika\_Rawat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deepika_rawat/32/71899_2.png) [@Deepika\_Rawat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deepika_Rawat)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-import-a-3gb-system-file-to-elk-in-one-go/240572/4 "2020-07-11T08:12:40Z")
Hey thnx for the reply I have a system log file of 3GB with data like this ``` 172.16.2.22 Jun 22 10:49:18 date=2020-06-22 local7 notice time=10:49:17 devname="FW_1" devid="FG2TK19907000" logid="000020" type="traffic" subtype="forward" level="notice" vd="root" eventtime=1592803157 srcip=172.16.16.21 srcport=57945 srcintf="VLAN-2" srcintfrole="lan" dstip=52.179.24.121 dstport=443 dstintf="wan2" dstintfrole="wan" poluuid="7b6d31e94-51ea-a540-5761e9fa764f" sessionid=38967804 proto=6 action="accept" policyid=10 policytype="policy" service="HTTPS" dstcountry="United States" srccountry="Reserved" trandisp="snat" transip=49.206.32.147 transport=57945 appid=41469 app="Microsoft.Portal" appcat="Collaboration" apprisk="elevated" applist="default" duration=104665 sentbyte=271556 rcvdbyte=381246 sentpkt=3499 rcvdpkt=1767 sentdelta=310 rcvddelta=432 ``` I tried to import it through ELK but it is giving me disk errors after some time..If not elk then can u suggest me any other free and open source software that can read and apply filers to 3GB file --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-import-a-3gb-system-file-to-elk-in-one-go/240572)._