# Need 6 months of log data in to ELK
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-6-months-of-log-data-in-to-elk/242437
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 24, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-6-months-of-log-data-in-to-elk/242437 "2020-07-24T04:01:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@nikhilesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nikhilesh)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-6-months-of-log-data-in-to-elk/242437/1 "2020-07-24T04:01:17Z")
Hi Team,
I have a requirement to fetch the 6 months of log data in to the Elasticsearch , is that possible?
for suppose, if i install filebeat now, how many day/months of data will come to elastic search.
Please help on this.
Thanks
Nikhilesh Gade
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### Author:  [@tactics](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tactics)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-6-months-of-log-data-in-to-elk/242437/2 "2020-07-26T14:30:18Z")
Hi Nikhilesh,
I am fairly new to this but I have found that you can pull an enormous amount of data into Elastic pretty quickly. The hard bit is getting your head around the various ins and outs and also making the data easy to read in Kibana.
You have missed out the key variables though. How long depends on two main variables.
1 - What is the log data?
2 - How big is the log data?
"Six months of log data" is a very broad statement. What are the logs from - one application or a whole company wide infrastructure covering multiple types and hosts? Also, what is the total size (uncompressed) or all logs?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-6-months-of-log-data-in-to-elk/242437/3 "2020-08-23T14:40:46Z")
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