# Advice Needed on Beats

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-needed-on-beats/77370>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 3, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-needed-on-beats/77370 "2017-03-03T23:12:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![zbay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zbay/32/16735_2.png) [@zbay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zbay)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-needed-on-beats/77370/1 "2017-03-03T23:12:47Z")

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Good evening,

I'm looking for a little advice on the best way to get streaming api's information into log-stash for real time analysis. Currently I'm looking for a facebook, google, and hootsuite. I've managed to get twitter however it seems that I'm ending up with a lot of open objects in the recieved data, and I have not received any geo points yet. Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated. Also allow me to thank you in advance. I should also add that I'm currently using version 5.2

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-needed-on-beats/77370/2 "2017-03-05T21:07:33Z")

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What beat are you using?

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**Author:** ![zbay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zbay/32/16735_2.png) [@zbay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zbay)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-needed-on-beats/77370/3 "2017-03-05T21:23:24Z")

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currently I am not using any beats, was looking at an http beat but currently doesn't have support for version 5.2. So was hoping that the community could give me some guidance on the best practices for achieving the live streaming off the different api's

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-needed-on-beats/77370/4 "2017-03-05T21:26:17Z")

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Ah ok 🙂  
Best option is to use the `http_poller` input for Logstash.

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**Author:** ![zbay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zbay/32/16735_2.png) [@zbay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zbay)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-needed-on-beats/77370/5 "2017-03-05T21:39:27Z")

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awesome, thanks for the info let me look into the documentation and see what I can work up.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-needed-on-beats/77370/6 "2017-07-05T21:49:51Z")

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