# Logstash Filters - Grok

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-filters-grok/46384
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [April 5, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-filters-grok/46384 "2016-04-05T11:25:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![ariceELK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@ariceELK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ariceELK)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-filters-grok/46384/1 "2016-04-05T11:25:41Z")

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Hi,

With the latest releases and support to directly ship to Elasticsearch, is Grok still required to filter logs in Logstash or is there another method ?

Thanks  
Aidan

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-filters-grok/46384/2 "2016-04-05T17:26:11Z")

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Are you talking about Filebeat here? Logstash has been able to ship directly to ES since forever.

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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, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-filters-grok/46384/3 "2017-07-06T05:03:47Z")

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