diff --git a/filebeat/docs/running-on-kubernetes.asciidoc b/filebeat/docs/running-on-kubernetes.asciidoc
index 40c18b3f8f2b..bab7de20b589 100644
--- a/filebeat/docs/running-on-kubernetes.asciidoc
+++ b/filebeat/docs/running-on-kubernetes.asciidoc
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ to ensure there's a running instance on each node of the cluster.
 
 The Docker logs host folder (`/var/lib/docker/containers`) is mounted on the
 {beatname_uc} container. {beatname_uc} starts an input for the files and
-begins harvesting them as soon as they appear in the folder. 
+begins harvesting them as soon as they appear in the folder.
 
 Everything is deployed under the `kube-system` namespace by default. To change
-the namespace, modify the manifest file. 
+the namespace, modify the manifest file.
 
 To download the manifest file, run:
 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ oc patch namespace kube-system -p \
 ----
 +
 This command sets the node selector for the project to an empty string. If you
-don't run this command, the default node selector will skip master nodes.  
+don't run this command, the default node selector will skip master nodes.
 
 
 [float]
@@ -135,3 +135,79 @@ filebeat   32        32        0         32           0           <none>
 
 Log events should start flowing to Elasticsearch. The events are annotated with
 metadata added by the <<add-kubernetes-metadata>> processor.
+
+
+[float]
+==== Parsing json logs
+
+It is common case when collecting logs from workloads running on Kubernetes that these
+applications are logging in json format. In these case, special handling can be applied so as to
+parse these json logs properly and decode them into fields. Bellow there are provided 2 different ways
+of configuring <<configuration-autodiscover, filebeat's autodiscover>> so as to identify and parse json logs.
+We will use an example of one Pod with 2 containers where only one of these logs in json format.
+
+Example log:
+```
+{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2020-11-16T14:30:13+00:00","tags":["warning","plugins","licensing"],"pid":7,"message":"License information could not be obtained from Elasticsearch due to Error: No Living connections error"}
+```
+
+
+. Using `json.*` options with templates
++
+[source,yaml]
+------------------------------------------------
+filebeat.autodiscover:
+  providers:
+      - type: kubernetes
+        node: ${NODE_NAME}
+        templates:
+          - condition:
+              contains:
+                kubernetes.container.name: "no-json-logging"
+            config:
+              - type: container
+                paths:
+                  - "/var/log/containers/*-${data.kubernetes.container.id}.log"
+          - condition:
+              contains:
+                kubernetes.container.name: "json-logging"
+            config:
+              - type: container
+                paths:
+                  - "/var/log/containers/*-${data.kubernetes.container.id}.log"
+                json.keys_under_root: true
+                json.add_error_key: true
+                json.message_key: message
+------------------------------------------------
+
+. Using `json.*` options with hints
++
+Key part here is to properly annotate the Pod to only parse logs of the correct container
+as json logs. In this, annotation should be constructed like this:
++
+`co.elastic.logs.<container_name>/json.keys_under_root: "true"`
++
+Autodiscovery configuration:
++
+[source,yaml]
+------------------------------------------------
+filebeat.autodiscover:
+  providers:
+    - type: kubernetes
+      node: ${NODE_NAME}
+      hints.enabled: true
+      hints.default_config:
+        type: container
+        paths:
+          - /var/log/containers/*${data.kubernetes.container.id}.log
+------------------------------------------------
++
+Then annotate the pod properly:
++
+[source,yaml]
+------------------------------------------------
+annotations:
+    co.elastic.logs.json-logging/json.keys_under_root: "true"
+    co.elastic.logs.json-logging/json.add_error_key: "true"
+    co.elastic.logs.json-logging/json.message_key: "message"
+------------------------------------------------