XES Converter

Extract text from XES files

Select File
Drop or upload your .XES file

Online File Converter

✈

How to extract text from your XES file

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 your XES file to another format, you need Fluxicon Disco or other Data software.

Convert a file to XES

To convert other file formats to the "Process Mining Log" file type, you need software like Fluxicon Disco or a similar tool.

About XES files

XES (eXtensible Event Stream) files are the global standard for storing event logs in the field of process mining. Adopted by the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining, these XML-based files structure business data into traces, events, and attributes (such as timestamps, resources, and activity names) to allow organizations to visualize and analyze their operational workflows. While .XES is crucial for interoperability between tools like Fluxicon Disco, Celonis, and ProM, the format presents significant hurdles for general users.

Because .XES relies on verbose XML syntax, files can become unwieldy and large, making them difficult to open in standard text editors like Notepad++. Furthermore, raw XML is not human-readable for quick analysis, and opening these files requires specialized, often expensive, process mining software or complex Python libraries like PM4Py. For users needing to perform quick statistical analysis or share data with stakeholders, converting .XES is often necessary.

Best Conversion Targets:

For Data Analysis: Convert to CSV or XLSX. This flattens the hierarchical XML structure into rows and columns, allowing you to filter and pivot data in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
For Development: Convert to JSON for lighter-weight web integration or parsing in JavaScript environments.
For Documentation: Convert to PDF to create a static record of the log structure or summary statistics.

Convert.Guru analyzes your XES file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted GZ, CSV, ZIP, XML, SLDASM, JSON, XAPK, TSX, BAK, JPG, PDF and ACSM files.

FAQ

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 Log" 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 Log" 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.