# Beats on Raspberry Pi 4/4g

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-raspberry-pi-4-4g/231814>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 9, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-raspberry-pi-4-4g/231814 "2020-05-09T02:29:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rainbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Rainbird](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rainbird)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-raspberry-pi-4-4g/231814/1 "2020-05-09T02:29:21Z")

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It has been a few months since this topic has come up. I thought I would ask here before starting what looks like will be a difficult slog.

I would like to run filebeats on a Raspberry Pi to take in data from a bunch of Arduinos and store it in Elastic. I have Elastic running on the Pi now. I have the Arduinos connecting to the Pi via wifi. Getting Beats in place is the last step of something I have been planning for a long time.

So, is there any easy way to install Beats on a Raspberry Pi 4? It looks like people who have been doing it were using a Pi 3 and so I would think that it would have had to have gotten better since then.

Thanks!

--ja

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**Author:** ![Luca\_Belluccini](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luca_belluccini/32/33239_2.png) [@Luca\_Belluccini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luca_Belluccini)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-raspberry-pi-4-4g/231814/2 "2020-05-09T08:36:25Z")

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Hello @Rainbird

Welcome to the forum.

At the moment Beats are not released for arm platform.

We have a GitHub issue to track this at [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/9442](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/9442)

It is definitely possible to build for arm, but such architecture is not officially supported. E.g.

```auto
make crosscompile

```

What protocol do you use to communicate from the arduinos to the raspberry?

Filebeat master supports the following: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/configuration-filebeat-options.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/configuration-filebeat-options.html)

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-raspberry-pi-4-4g/231814/3 "2020-05-09T16:36:00Z")

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Snapshots builds are available from our CI servers for testing. For rpi this debian package will work: [https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/beats-ci-artifacts/snapshots/filebeat-7.7.0-SNAPSHOT-armhf.deb](https://storage.googleapis.com/storage/beats-ci-artifacts/snapshots/filebeat-7.7.0-SNAPSHOT-armhf.deb).

It takes the form of: `https://storage.googleapis.com/beats-ci-artifacts/snapshots/{{ beat }}-{{ snapshot_version }}-{{ debian_arch }}.deb`

Jenkins for 7.7: [https://beats-ci.elastic.co/job/Beats/job/packaging/job/7.7/lastSuccessfulBuild/gcsObjects/](https://beats-ci.elastic.co/job/Beats/job/packaging/job/7.7/lastSuccessfulBuild/gcsObjects/)

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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:** [June 6, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-on-raspberry-pi-4-4g/231814/4 "2020-06-06T16:36:05Z")

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