# Ingest Logstash logs Logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-logstash-logs-logstash/36340>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 4, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-logstash-logs-logstash/36340 "2015-12-04T03:26:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![treehouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@treehouse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/treehouse)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-logstash-logs-logstash/36340/1 "2015-12-04T03:26:58Z")

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Trying to ingest the logstash logs that i have in `logstash/logstash.log` and `logstash/logstash.err` into elasticsearch with logstash.

This is the format, I think it is a ruby hash object --  
`{:timestamp=>"2015-12-03T18:08:09.382000-0800", :message=>"Failed to flush outgoing items", :level=>:warn}`

which filter should I use to structure these logs? I was going to use the ruby filter plugin to handle it with raw ruby, but i was wondering if there was a cleaner way?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-logstash-logs-logstash/36340/2 "2017-07-06T05:19:51Z")

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