# Trying to read avro files
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-read-avro-files/77726
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 7, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-read-avro-files/77726 "2017-03-07T21:08:30Z")
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### Author:  [@kmroz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kmroz)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-read-avro-files/77726/1 "2017-03-07T21:08:30Z")
I am wondering the best way to read these files. Currently I was going to send them over using filebeat, but I am not sure how ti the avro codec works? Is there an easier way to transfer the avro files into a json format then read it that way on the fly? I know there exists a command line tool of "avro tools" and that will transfer them to JSON.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-read-avro-files/77726/2 "2017-04-04T21:09:13Z")
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