# Logs REST API **URL:** \ **Category:** Logs\ **Created:** [April 1, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068 "2020-04-01T14:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dawood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dawood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dawood)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068/1 "2020-04-01T14:45:02Z")
Hi, Is there a REST API to retrieve all logs(hits) by specific search ? Is there any examples? In elastic section i can not see that!! Thanks, Dawood ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068/2 "2020-04-01T14:56:04Z")
The Scroll API in elasticsearch will allows you to do that if this is what you meant. ---
**Author:** ![Dawood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dawood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dawood)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068/3 "2020-04-01T14:58:56Z")
I mean from outside kibana. curl command or request from python.. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068/4 "2020-04-01T14:59:18Z")
That's what I meant as well. ---
**Author:** ![Dawood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dawood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dawood)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068/5 "2020-04-01T15:00:12Z")
So i will see "Scroll API in elasticsearch" and will update. Thanks:) ---
**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068/6 "2020-04-01T15:20:41Z")
I would also recommend taking a look at the [`search_after`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/search-request-body.html#request-body-search-search-after) parameter. It's a lightweight alternative to the `_scroll` API and is [designed to ultimately replace it](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/26472). ---
**Author:** ![Dawood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dawood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dawood)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068/7 "2020-04-06T14:47:06Z")
Hi, **Using python infrastructure:** I am already familiar of putting data into logstash via python module " logstash\_async". It works excellent. My need now as part of test process on several nodes ( machines) is to give an ability to users who decide to write system machine logs such as "dmesg" by "tail f" these files for a period of time and push the output into logstash. Is there a way to do that ? ---
**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068/8 "2020-04-15T10:02:07Z")
Hi again @Dawood, I'm not sure I correctly understand you last question. Could you try to rephrase it? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logs-rest-api/226068/9 "2020-05-13T10:02:08Z")
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