# Read regex from file

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-regex-from-file/51439>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [May 31, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-regex-from-file/51439 "2016-05-31T15:01:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![quimnuss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/quimnuss/32/9992_2.png) [@quimnuss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/quimnuss)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-regex-from-file/51439/1 "2016-05-31T15:01:52Z")

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[@monicasarbu](https://github.com/monicasarbu) added [regex include/exclude](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/430) support for beats. How hard would it be to read those regex from file when we have a long list of regex? Is it already possible?

I'd look forward to re-using the logcheck regex filters.

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**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-regex-from-file/51439/2 "2016-05-31T15:53:35Z")

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Currently it's not possible to read the regular expressions from a file, but I think it's an interesting idea. Please add a feature request in [GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues).

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**Author:** ![quimnuss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/quimnuss/32/9992_2.png) [@quimnuss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/quimnuss)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-regex-from-file/51439/3 "2016-05-31T17:37:38Z")

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There you go: [#1783](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/1783). I didn't know how to add the label enhancement, since it's not a bug.

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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:** [June 21, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-regex-from-file/51439/4 "2016-06-21T15:02:04Z")

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