# Beats send logs to redis

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 7, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679 "2016-03-07T17:02:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Jeferson\_Martins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jeferson_martins/32/5849_2.png) [@Jeferson\_Martins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeferson_Martins)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/1 "2016-03-07T17:02:02Z")

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I want only to use multipline and ship logs to redis.

What version of beats have redis output? I read about this and the last version does't output to redis.

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**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/2 "2016-03-07T17:41:03Z")

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All the 1.x Beats versions have support for Redis output, so you can use it. Please let us know if you encounter any problems.

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**Author:** ![Jeferson\_Martins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jeferson_martins/32/5849_2.png) [@Jeferson\_Martins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeferson_Martins)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/3 "2016-03-07T17:57:02Z")

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ok, thanks

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**Author:** ![Lavanya\_Anne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@Lavanya\_Anne](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lavanya_Anne)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/4 "2016-04-12T09:40:05Z")

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can you give me the configarations for redis in filebeat..  
what are the configarations we have to do in redis also.  
please help me to do this .

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/5 "2016-04-12T16:26:07Z")

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[see manual](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/redis-output.html)

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**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/6 "2016-04-12T21:21:01Z")

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Please notice that Filebeat is just a log forwarder and it exports the log lines as they are without parsing them, so you need to use either Logstash or the Ingest node plugin of Elasticsearch 5.0.0-alpha1 to parse the log lines.

Please have a look at the [docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/redis-output.html) for more details about how to configure the redis output.

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**Author:** ![Lavanya\_Anne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@Lavanya\_Anne](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lavanya_Anne)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/7 "2016-04-13T12:56:09Z")

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I was confused Redis Output is deprecated or not. i was getting thr error while running the filebeat.yml  
"WARN Redis Output is deprecated. Please use the Redis Output Plugin from Logstash instead."

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**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/8 "2016-04-13T13:50:12Z")

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What version of Filebeat are you using? In 1.2.0 Redis was un-deprecated, but the warning was still there. We fixed that in 1.2.1 version.

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**Author:** ![Lavanya\_Anne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@Lavanya\_Anne](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lavanya_Anne)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/9 "2016-04-13T14:02:08Z")

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i am using 1.1.0.thx for the information

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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 5, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-send-logs-to-redis/43679/10 "2017-07-05T21:53:20Z")

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