# Manually insert logs **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 8, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-insert-logs/151380 "2018-10-08T03:28:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ariesow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@ariesow](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ariesow)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-insert-logs/151380/1 "2018-10-08T03:28:33Z")
Hi, I have a question on putting log into ELK for devices what does not write logs elsewhere but only on its buffer. While we can export out the log into files manually, can we also manually input this file to ELK for log analysis ? Thank you. ---
**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 8, 2018, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-insert-logs/151380/2 "2018-10-08T03:35:59Z")
I guess that really depends on what the devices can do. Elasticsearch will accept them as long as you can ship them to it. ---
**Author:** ![ariesow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@ariesow](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ariesow)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-insert-logs/151380/3 "2018-10-08T04:01:46Z")
Agree. I am thinking to use filebeat to pickup the logfile, while we update the logfile manually for the time being. i am not sure if that will works. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manually-insert-logs/151380/4 "2018-11-05T04:01:49Z")
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