# Logstash Parsing File (Without Filebeat)

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-file-without-filebeat/216160
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 23, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-file-without-filebeat/216160 "2020-01-23T01:25:18Z")
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### Author: ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-file-without-filebeat/216160/6 "2020-01-23T21:11:29Z")

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You should be seeing lines like [these](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wildcards-regex-not-working/164204/2). filewatch is the library that the file input uses to read files.

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