# JSON log format
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-log-format/45567
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 28, 2016, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-log-format/45567 "2016-03-28T08:32:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Mykolaichenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mykolaichenko)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-log-format/45567/1 "2016-03-28T08:32:34Z")
Hi!
I have filebeat, logstash and json log format in application.
It looks like this:
> {"timestamp":1459152943492,"date":"Mar 28, 2016 10:15:43 AM","hostname":"hostname","username":"tomcat","level":"INFO","thread":"SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-3","classname":"com.ju.source.download.service.DownloadServiceImpl","filename":"DownloadServiceImpl.java","linenumber":159,"methodname":"downloadSources","message":"full message here"}
How can i ship it to Elastic more quickly and maybe community have best practise for this?)
Not its working like this:
> if [type] == "json" {
> json {
> source =\> "message"
> }
> }
It works pretty good, but some problems goes on too:
1. I will not use any filters
2. Timestamp not matched to real field and matched as additional
3. Thats all 🙂
Maybe anyone have experience with json?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-log-format/45567/2 "2016-03-28T08:38:40Z")
> Not its working like this:
Did you mean "now it's working like this" or did you actually mean that it isn't working?
About your questions:
1. We can't help without getting your full configuration and an example input event.
2. I don't understand the question fully, but it sounds like you don't have a date filter or that it's incorrectly configured. Again, seeing your configuration and example event would make it posisble to help.
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### Author:  [@Mykolaichenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mykolaichenko)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-log-format/45567/3 "2016-03-30T16:02:48Z")
Yep, its working now)
I will find best practices for Json processing.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-log-format/45567/4 "2017-07-06T05:04:42Z")