# Parse / ship JSON file with filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-ship-json-file-with-filebeat/34540>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 13, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parse-ship-json-file-with-filebeat/34540 "2015-11-13T17:39:08Z")\
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> [@steffens](#):
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> is "json\_lines" working for you? You can also try the "json" codec.

Hi Steffens,

Yeah they both seem to work really great!

I've run into another issue where filebeat stopped working however.

[Filebeat Stopped working](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-working/41401/2)

It was nice having it work while it lasted !

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