Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your XES file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert XES to another file type
To convert XES Event streams to another format, you need Fluxicon Disco or other Data software.
Convert a file to XES
To convert other file formats to the "Event Stream Log File" file type, you need software like Fluxicon Disco or a similar tool.
About XES files
The .XES file is an eXtensible Event Stream log. It is the standard format for process mining. Systems like ERP, CRM, and healthcare applications generate these logs to track workflows and events. You can open and analyze them using specialized software like Fluxicon Disco or the open-source ProM framework. Some .XES files are plain XML, while others are compressed using GZIP to save space. Rarely, a .XES file might be a visual effect data file for older games like GunZ: The Duel. The main disadvantage of the .XES format is its niche nature. You cannot open it natively in web browsers, and reading raw XML event data in a basic text editor is nearly impossible due to massive file sizes. These files often exceed gigabytes, crashing standard tools. You need dedicated process mining software to visualize the data, which often requires expensive licenses or complex installations. To make the data accessible, you must convert it. For data analysis in Microsoft Excel or Python, convert .XES to CSV. For web applications and modern data pipelines, convert to JSON. For general parsing without process mining tools, extract the raw XML.
Convert.Guru analyzes your XES file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert XES file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Fluxicon Disco or similar software from the "Process Mining Event Logs" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to XES, try Fluxicon Disco or another comparable tool in the "Process Mining Event Logs" category.
The XES Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our XES converter.