# Tailing gzip files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tailing-gzip-files/235250>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tailing-gzip-files/235250 "2020-06-01T23:22:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahenri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rahenri/32/69530_2.png) [@rahenri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahenri)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tailing-gzip-files/235250/1 "2020-06-01T23:22:59Z")

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Hi everyone,

I have been using logstash to read logs from our servers, however, we have recently switched the servers to produce gzip'ed logs to save disk space. But I just found out that means we can't use logstash to tail those files anymore, at least, not that I could find out. Is there a solution to this?

Thanks!

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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 29, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tailing-gzip-files/235250/2 "2020-06-29T23:23:00Z")

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