# Beats protocol input option

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-protocol-input-option/192771
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 29, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-protocol-input-option/192771 "2019-07-29T20:14:49Z")
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### Author: ![Will\_Weber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/will_weber/32/33168_2.png) [@Will\_Weber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Will_Weber)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-protocol-input-option/192771/1 "2019-07-29T20:14:49Z")

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Any chance you all would be open to a beats server as a filebeat input option?

My team currently run a series of beats servers at my edge to push into a larger aggregator infrastructure(over tcp and udp), and would love to not run logstash on that same infrastructure in order to receive data from winlogbeat/packetbeat/other filebeat instances.

We've found that filebeat is able to handle this load a bit more safely than logstash.

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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: [August 26, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-protocol-input-option/192771/2 "2019-08-26T20:14:54Z")

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