# Logstash Support for EXCEL

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-support-for-excel/131454>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 11, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-support-for-excel/131454 "2018-05-11T10:05:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rahulnama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@rahulnama](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulnama)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-support-for-excel/131454/1 "2018-05-11T10:05:52Z")

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Hello Team

I've an excel sheet having data of tickets. Now I'm converting the Excel to CSV and feeding to logstash as input.

But to convert to csv, it requires a manual intervention which we don't want.

Is there anyway to automate this? or as an alternative do logstash supports Excel as well?

Please suggest 🙂  
Thanks for your time

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**Author:** ![SteveBaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@SteveBaker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SteveBaker)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-support-for-excel/131454/2 "2018-05-11T10:39:41Z")

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If you're using linux you could always download a XSLX to CSV converter, then automate it in Cron. You'll probably need to write a short script, something along the lines of _if .XLSX file exists in this folder, run conversion tool_ and just get Cron to run that script every 24 hours.

Not sure how you'd go about it with windows, although you could probably do something similar using Scheduled Tasks (Windows version of Cron)

Hope this helps.

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**Author:** ![rahulnama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@rahulnama](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulnama)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-support-for-excel/131454/3 "2018-05-11T11:26:05Z")

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@SteveBaker  
Thank you for the suggestion.

I'm using windows. May be we can run a program or any Job to convert it. But don't logstash have support for excel?

Rahul Nama

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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:** [May 14, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-support-for-excel/131454/4 "2018-05-14T06:00:46Z")

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> But don't logstash have support for excel?

No, there's no input plugin available for that (but it wouldn't be impossible to write one).

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**Author:** ![rahulnama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@rahulnama](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulnama)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-support-for-excel/131454/5 "2018-05-14T06:07:46Z")

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@magnusbaeck

cool, Thankyou 🙂

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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:** [June 11, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-support-for-excel/131454/6 "2018-06-11T06:08:01Z")

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