# My first attempt to export events into ELK

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-first-attempt-to-export-events-into-elk/248702>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 15, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-first-attempt-to-export-events-into-elk/248702 "2020-09-15T15:15:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![leostereo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leostereo/32/74891_2.png) [@leostereo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leostereo)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-first-attempt-to-export-events-into-elk/248702/1 "2020-09-15T15:15:41Z")

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Hi guys.  
I have a little application that generates a numeric result after performing some processing every 24hs.  
I, logging following log lines:

```
Sep 15 15:06:30 UBUNTU-SMOKE 15 new customers created by system1
Sep 15 15:06:30 UBUNTU-SMOKE 17 new customers created by system2

```

I would like as first experience with elk to export those lines to elk.  
Im a little overwhelmed about too many available , tools.  
I would like to know witch would be easier aproach in order to export those registers and then be able to create a kibana dasboard.  
Waiting to hear your ideas.  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![ylasri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ylasri/32/86120_2.png) [@ylasri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ylasri)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-first-attempt-to-export-events-into-elk/248702/2 "2020-09-15T15:19:10Z")

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In your place i will use filebeat to send these log into my elasticsearch ingest node  
and i will use a small ingest pipeline to grok this portion of log ...

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**Author:** ![leostereo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leostereo/32/74891_2.png) [@leostereo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leostereo)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-first-attempt-to-export-events-into-elk/248702/3 "2020-09-15T19:02:55Z")

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Thanks for your words.  
Question is:  
Can I send directly to elastic node ?  
i mean ... instead of write a log file , read the file and send lines to elastic.  
That way I can avoid installing filebeat on generating machine.

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**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:** [September 15, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-first-attempt-to-export-events-into-elk/248702/4 "2020-09-15T21:14:33Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃 We aren't all guys though.

> [@leostereo](#):
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> i mean ... instead of write a log file , read the file and send lines to elastic.

Does your app log to stdout? If not, where does the output go?

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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:** [October 13, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-first-attempt-to-export-events-into-elk/248702/5 "2020-10-13T21:14:36Z")

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