# Any way to use prometheus to monitor filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-prometheus-to-monitor-filebeat/137560>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-prometheus-to-monitor-filebeat/137560 "2018-06-27T07:47:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![prometheus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@prometheus1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prometheus1)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-prometheus-to-monitor-filebeat/137560/1 "2018-06-27T07:47:27Z")

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I have a prometheus monitoring setup. I need some sort of exporter from filebeat to scrape metrics from. I see filebeat already has X-Pack monitoring which needs an ES backend. Is there any way to support prometheus metrics exposed on an HTTP endpoint?

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**Author:** ![kvch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kvch/32/72058_2.png) [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-prometheus-to-monitor-filebeat/137560/2 "2018-06-27T09:02:24Z")

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Right now monitoring Filebeat using XPack is the only supported way.  
Do you mind opening an enhancement request on GH, so the state of Prometheus monitoring can be tracked? [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new)

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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 25, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-use-prometheus-to-monitor-filebeat/137560/3 "2018-07-25T09:02:36Z")

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