# Auditbeat or Filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-or-filebeat/246287>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat, auditbeat\
**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-or-filebeat/246287 "2020-08-25T13:03:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Burga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Burga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Burga)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-or-filebeat/246287/1 "2020-08-25T13:03:03Z")

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Hi I just wondering what Auditbeat can audit what filebeat can't by logging

/var/log/audit/audit.log ?

we planned to install both auditbeat and filebeat on the same host but from my undersating filebeat also can get auditing info from audit.log file .

Best Regards.

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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:** [August 26, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-or-filebeat/246287/2 "2020-08-26T04:40:39Z")

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Basically;

- file integrity
- the output from the auditd daemon

Filebeat can definitely extract some of the logs that Auditbeat processes, but it has preconfigured modules to structure them for the dashboards.

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**Author:** ![Burga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Burga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Burga)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-or-filebeat/246287/3 "2020-08-26T05:12:00Z")

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Thank you , what do you mean by "output from audit daemon" , the output from auditd is not written into audit.log file ?

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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:** [August 26, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-or-filebeat/246287/4 "2020-08-26T05:22:35Z")

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Take a look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/auditbeat-module-auditd.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/auditbeat-module-auditd.html)

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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:** [September 23, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-or-filebeat/246287/5 "2020-09-23T07:22:42Z")

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