# Beat for RDD files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-for-rdd-files/239299>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-for-rdd-files/239299 "2020-06-30T12:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![anikajaninaelfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@anikajaninaelfie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anikajaninaelfie)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-for-rdd-files/239299/1 "2020-06-30T12:42:26Z")

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Hello there!

I want to read RDD Files and transfer them to Kibana. Unfortunately, Filebeat can't manage that. Is there any other solution than to develop a beat for that purpose.

I fount this post from 2016:

> [@A beat for RRD files? (or How to start a beat, by a go-newbie?)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-beat-for-rrd-files-or-how-to-start-a-beat-by-a-go-newbie/51787):
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> Hi there, I've been setting up an ELK stack to collect various metrics. Most of them will come from hosts where I can't afford installing Logstash, so I plan to use Beats. For logs, it's quite trivial, thanks to Filebeat, but I also want to ship data that are currently stored in RRD files (created by Munin, SmokePing…). For those who don't know, RRD is a simplified database, with constant very efficient disk usage. A lot of data can fit in a small file and the granularity increases over time…

Any progress on that? Is there a solution by now?

Greetings!!

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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 28, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-for-rdd-files/239299/2 "2020-07-28T14:42:27Z")

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