# Ingesting Elasticsearch Logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-elasticsearch-logs/37671>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 21, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-elasticsearch-logs/37671 "2015-12-21T09:11:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-elasticsearch-logs/37671/1 "2015-12-21T09:11:04Z")

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Hi,  
If I send elasticsearch logs to logstash with filebeat will I need to do any grokking on those logs or does logstash recognise and parse the elasticsearch log and slow query log format by default? If there are filters needed are these publicly available?

Regards,  
David

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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, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingesting-elasticsearch-logs/37671/2 "2017-07-06T05:17:41Z")

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