# Beats on AIX

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-aix/363965>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 29, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-aix/363965 "2024-07-29T10:08:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![swapnilww](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@swapnilww](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swapnilww)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-aix/363965/1 "2024-07-29T10:08:37Z")

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Need some help for installing beat agents on AIX servers.

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**Author:** ![Wolfram\_Haussig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfram_haussig/32/70528_2.png) [@Wolfram\_Haussig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfram_Haussig)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-aix/363965/2 "2024-07-29T11:13:38Z")

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Hi,

As you probably already saw, AIX is not supported by Elastic: [Support Matrix | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix)

As the Beats are written in Go and compiled to a native executable, the chances to get it to work are pretty slim. **But** : There is an open issue to support it, so you might get lucky in the future: [Add AIX support · Issue #15785 · elastic/beats · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/15785)

Although you did not describe your usecase, you coul take a look at Logstash. As Logstash is a Java application, you might have a better chance to get this to work but without any guarantees (e.g. Logstash sometimes uses native libraries).

Best regards  
Wolfram