# Receive Syslog messages in Elastic 5.0

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receive-syslog-messages-in-elastic-5-0/57621>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 9, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receive-syslog-messages-in-elastic-5-0/57621 "2016-08-09T17:34:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![robert-blankenship](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robert-blankenship/32/11287_2.png) [@robert-blankenship](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robert-blankenship)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receive-syslog-messages-in-elastic-5-0/57621/1 "2016-08-09T17:34:01Z")

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Anyone know how to do this?

Looking to be able to do this without the use of Logstash. I found this plugin [https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-syslog](https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-syslog) but I wasn't able to install it.

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**Author:** ![DiscussBuster](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/discussbuster/32/11042_2.png) [@DiscussBuster](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DiscussBuster)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receive-syslog-messages-in-elastic-5-0/57621/2 "2016-08-10T02:35:03Z")

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Inspect the documentation in the link you provided.

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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 5, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/receive-syslog-messages-in-elastic-5-0/57621/3 "2017-07-05T22:28:59Z")

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