# Input Plugin for Semantic Logging events

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-semantic-logging-events/48742>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 28, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-semantic-logging-events/48742 "2016-04-28T21:46:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Sameer\_Panicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sameer\_Panicker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameer_Panicker)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-semantic-logging-events/48742/1 "2016-04-28T21:46:50Z")

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Is there any input plugin for capturing Semantic Logging events? I have used a file plugin. But it has many custom log formats. I am looking for something which is already built to serve this functionality.

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**Author:** ![Sameer\_Panicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sameer\_Panicker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameer_Panicker)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-semantic-logging-events/48742/2 "2016-04-30T18:58:21Z")

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Any comment on this please ?

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**Author:** ![fbaligand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fbaligand/32/5657_2.png) [@fbaligand](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fbaligand)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-semantic-logging-events/48742/3 "2016-05-02T17:17:10Z")

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What do you call semantic logging events ?

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**Author:** ![Sameer\_Panicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sameer\_Panicker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameer_Panicker)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-semantic-logging-events/48742/4 "2016-05-02T18:35:47Z")

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We are using Microsoft Enterprise Library - Semantic Logging to log our services request n responses into a flat file.

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**Author:** ![fbaligand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fbaligand/32/5657_2.png) [@fbaligand](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fbaligand)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-semantic-logging-events/48742/5 "2016-05-02T21:51:33Z")

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To my knowledge, there is no input plugin specialized for "Microsoft Enterprise Library - Semantic Logging".

If logs are stored in flat file, you can use first "file" input, and then "grok" filter and every powerful other logstash filters to parse your specific log format, and so transform each log line in a document.

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**Author:** ![Sameer\_Panicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sameer\_Panicker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sameer_Panicker)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-semantic-logging-events/48742/6 "2016-05-02T22:03:03Z")

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I have implemented the same itself.

Thanks for the confirmation.

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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, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-plugin-for-semantic-logging-events/48742/7 "2017-07-06T04:59:40Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:59am UTC