# Storing images , videos in elasticserch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [May 5, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985 "2022-05-05T04:14:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Naga\_Prudhvi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Naga_Prudhvi)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/1 "2022-05-05T04:14:16Z")
Can someone help me how can I store images in elasticserch?
1st way: using logstash conf file
2nd way; using directly elasticserch
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 4:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/2 "2022-05-05T04:16:54Z")
Elasticsearch is not a binary store, it doesn't really make sense to store this sort of data in it.
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### Author:  [@Naga\_Prudhvi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Naga_Prudhvi)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/3 "2022-05-05T04:19:05Z")
Can we store unstructured data
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 4:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/4 "2022-05-05T04:29:30Z")
Yes.
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### Author:  [@Naga\_Prudhvi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Naga_Prudhvi)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 4:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/5 "2022-05-05T04:42:19Z")
Can u please help with that, a sample logstash conf code would really help
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/6 "2022-05-05T05:15:20Z")
From what source?
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### Author:  [@Naga\_Prudhvi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Naga_Prudhvi)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/7 "2022-05-05T05:45:22Z")
Unstructured rich text file
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/8 "2022-05-05T05:58:48Z")
Take a look at the [file input](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-file.html), and the [Elasticsearch output](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-elasticsearch.html).
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### Author:  [@grumo35](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grumo35)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/9 "2022-05-05T10:17:20Z")
Hi,
Why dont you store the path of the image ? and make it acessible as same as the Elasticsearch database, i cannot see a use case where you would benefit from storing such data as binary.
Very curious 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/storing-images-videos-in-elasticserch/303985/10 "2022-06-02T10:17:31Z")
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