# Parse and send Java logs to the ELK 7.3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-and-send-java-logs-to-the-elk-7-3/199122>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-and-send-java-logs-to-the-elk-7-3/199122 "2019-09-11T18:54:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saber.Tala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Saber.Tala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saber.Tala)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-and-send-java-logs-to-the-elk-7-3/199122/1 "2019-09-11T18:54:32Z")

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Using Elasticsearch 7.3 on CentOS 7 and Java veriosn 11, I need to parse and find specific Error/Exception text in some Java Application log files, Should I use Filebeat or Metricbeat to parse and ship some text patterns in log files to Elastic?

Any help is appreciated.

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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 9, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-and-send-java-logs-to-the-elk-7-3/199122/2 "2019-10-09T18:54:33Z")

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