# Beat support for Message Queue output
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-support-for-message-queue-output/39567
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [January 19, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-support-for-message-queue-output/39567 "2016-01-19T16:36:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Nir\_Dothan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nir_Dothan)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-support-for-message-queue-output/39567/1 "2016-01-19T16:36:27Z")
Documentation shows that Redis output is deprecated, and I didn't see Kafka at all. Is there an architectural reason why I would not want to use a message queue between Beat and the Logstash indexer? Are there any plans to support message queues in the future?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-support-for-message-queue-output/39567/2 "2016-01-20T07:24:05Z")
We still recommend the use of a broker, at least until the next major release of Logstash that will contain one.
I'll let the Beats team comment more 🙂
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### Author:  [@megakid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/megakid)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-support-for-message-queue-output/39567/3 "2016-01-20T08:21:52Z")
I would be very interested in either ActiveMQ or EventStore protocol support for packetbeat. I guess this comes under this topic.
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-support-for-message-queue-output/39567/4 "2016-01-20T08:29:40Z")
Best is to have a look at the discussion here: [https://github.com/elastic/filebeat/issues/132](https://github.com/elastic/filebeat/issues/132)
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-support-for-message-queue-output/39567/5 "2016-01-20T08:31:12Z")
@megakid If you refer to packetbeat supporting to read these protocols, I think this goes into an other topic. Here is a list of requested new protocols: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/labels/new%20protocol](https://github.com/elastic/beats/labels/new%20protocol)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-support-for-message-queue-output/39567/6 "2017-07-05T21:56:34Z")