# Jsons and logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jsons-and-logstash/88222
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 5, 2017, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jsons-and-logstash/88222 "2017-06-05T05:40:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@coolshiva123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/coolshiva123)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jsons-and-logstash/88222/1 "2017-06-05T05:40:33Z")
Hi Team,
I am having a json like this
[
{
item1:value
item2:value
item3:[value a,value b]
}
]
I am having filebeat sending the logs to logstash (and this is a multiline json having an array as well in key value pairs). I am trying to extract values by parsing json filters in logstash with out any sucesss. Can some one please help me to get a value, for example
item2:value
so that i can take this to elastic search and then time series graph thro Kibana
I am having difficulty in
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2017, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jsons-and-logstash/88222/2 "2017-06-07T06:03:27Z")
I'd like to see
- a few lines of actual input (obfuscate values if you like but make sure the structure exactly matches reality),
- your configuration files, and
- an example event produced by Logstash (i.e. the effect your current configuration files have on the input).
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### Author:  [@coolshiva123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/coolshiva123)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jsons-and-logstash/88222/3 "2017-06-14T22:54:01Z")
{
"region\_name": “BLD\_EGD\_C\_VM01",
"vmcount": 229,
"vol\_count": 0,
"vmsandvols\_count": 229,
"no\_of\_networks": 2,
"active\_ips": 276,
"total\_ips\_configured": 961,
"no\_of\_hypervisors": 1,
"disk\_san\_free\_tb": 43.35330677032471,
"disk\_san\_tb": 100.485595703125,
"start\_time": 140617151754,
"end\_time": 140617151920,
"subnets\_identity": [
"subnet\_1",
"subnet\_2"
],
"subnet\_1": {
"name": "EGD\_C\_19.195.16",
"ipcount": 479
},
"subnet\_2": {
"name": "EGD\_C\_19.195.18",
"ipcount": 482
},
"hypervisor\_identity": [
"h\_1"
],
"h\_1": {
"id": 1,
"name": "domain-c1403(Mountain02)",
"vcpus": 312,
"vcpus\_used": 773,
"memory\_mb": 4217232,
"memory\_used\_mb": 2422272,
"disk\_discoverd\_gb": 102397,
"disk\_used\_gb": 42443,
"running\_vms": 229
}
}
This is my subnet .. I am looking to plot graphs for example discovered\_disk\_gb vs disk\_used\_gb
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jsons-and-logstash/88222/4 "2017-06-15T05:29:42Z")
Please answer all my questions.
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### Author:  [@coolshiva123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/coolshiva123)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2017, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jsons-and-logstash/88222/5 "2017-06-17T07:15:53Z")
I have a simple config that doesnt parse json yet, i use a text filter (just to learn logstash), I have nt tried for the above mentioned json yet
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2017, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jsons-and-logstash/88222/6 "2017-07-15T07:16:17Z")
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