# Best beats for crontab in linux

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-beats-for-crontab-in-linux/206005
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [October 31, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-beats-for-crontab-in-linux/206005 "2019-10-31T09:10:16Z")
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### Author: ![Bharatsid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@Bharatsid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bharatsid)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-beats-for-crontab-in-linux/206005/1 "2019-10-31T09:10:16Z")

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I want alert monitoring for crontab in my application. So which beats are best to monitor for crontabs?

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### Author: ![Michael\_Madden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael_madden/32/46640_2.png) [@Michael\_Madden](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Madden)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-beats-for-crontab-in-linux/206005/2 "2019-11-14T18:53:08Z")

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Hello,

Thanks for the post. To clarify, are you wanting to monitor the crontabs on a Linux server? In this case, you could configure `filebeat` to monitor the files in `/var/spool/cron/crontabs` on a Debian/Ubuntu system. There is likely another corresponding `cron` directory in `/var/log`.

Thanks.

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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: [December 12, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-beats-for-crontab-in-linux/206005/3 "2019-12-12T20:55:02Z")

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