# Learning logstash groksample.log file mia?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learning-logstash-groksample-log-file-mia/33280>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 29, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learning-logstash-groksample-log-file-mia/33280 "2015-10-29T17:12:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![doghousesoftware](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@doghousesoftware](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/doghousesoftware)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learning-logstash-groksample-log-file-mia/33280/1 "2015-10-29T17:12:59Z")

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looking for the precious "groksample.log" file. pointer?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learning-logstash-groksample-log-file-mia/33280/2 "2015-10-30T07:54:39Z")

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Can you elaborate a bit more?  
Where _was_ is?

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**Author:** ![doghousesoftware](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@doghousesoftware](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/doghousesoftware)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learning-logstash-groksample-log-file-mia/33280/3 "2015-10-30T15:09:38Z")

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Hi Mark:

This page:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/advanced-pipeline.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/advanced-pipeline.html)

references the  
following:

Replace /path/to/ with the actual path to the location  
of groksample.log in your file  
system.

Perhaps wrongly, is that a sample file that I get from somewhere or it's just a sample of code? I don’t seem to  
have that ‘groksample.log’ file anywhere in anything that’s been downloaded in  
the .zip for logstash 1.5.4, nor can I find it on github (though I thought I saw that it had been removed in a comment). Is this part of a download I can get or is it just a complete sample and I create my own for this example?

bryan

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learning-logstash-groksample-log-file-mia/33280/4 "2015-10-31T01:03:41Z")

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I think it's just a placeholder, you need to use your actual log.

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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, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/learning-logstash-groksample-log-file-mia/33280/5 "2017-07-06T05:24:44Z")

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