# Can filebeat be can initialed using initcontiner to forward logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-be-can-initialed-using-initcontiner-to-forward-logs/261649>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** docker, filebeat\
**Created:** [January 20, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-be-can-initialed-using-initcontiner-to-forward-logs/261649 "2021-01-20T12:54:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![srini54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@srini54](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srini54)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-be-can-initialed-using-initcontiner-to-forward-logs/261649/1 "2021-01-20T12:54:48Z")

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We are exloring options to trigger the filebeat process as part of an initContainer to push the tomcat logs. Is it possible to initialize scirpt to copy tomcat log to another volume and push it to logstash/elastic.

Please let me know if such thing is possible

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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:** [February 17, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeat-be-can-initialed-using-initcontiner-to-forward-logs/261649/2 "2021-02-17T14:55:01Z")

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