# Parsing avro files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-avro-files/138307>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-avro-files/138307 "2018-07-03T05:44:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@alex3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alex3)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-avro-files/138307/1 "2018-07-03T05:44:08Z")

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I'd like to ingest an avro file with an embedded schema (.avro). What's the best way to go about doing this? I was thinking of extracting the schema from the .avro file and making a separate .avsc file, but not sure where to go from there. 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:** [July 31, 2018, 5:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-avro-files/138307/2 "2018-07-31T05:49:02Z")

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