# What is Greedydata

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-greedydata/122078>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 1, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-greedydata/122078 "2018-03-01T13:43:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Srikanth\_FT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Srikanth\_FT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srikanth_FT)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-greedydata/122078/1 "2018-03-01T13:43:29Z")

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Hi,

Can someone explain me what is greedydata.

Best  
Mudireddy

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**Author:** ![rcowart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rcowart/32/88091_2.png) [@rcowart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rcowart)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-greedydata/122078/2 "2018-03-01T14:33:29Z")

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I assume you are talking about grok patterns. You can find the definitions for all of the built-in patterns here...

> <https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-patterns-core/blob/master/patterns/grok-patterns>

As you will find there, `GREEDYDATA` is `.*`

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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:** [March 29, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-greedydata/122078/3 "2018-03-29T14:33:48Z")

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