# Can filebeat's input and output sources support the Pulsar plugin?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeats-input-and-output-sources-support-the-pulsar-plugin/379084>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 11, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeats-input-and-output-sources-support-the-pulsar-plugin/379084 "2025-06-11T08:11:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-filebeats-input-and-output-sources-support-the-pulsar-plugin/379084/1 "2025-06-11T08:11:57Z")

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Apache Pulsar is an open source distributed messaging middleware product, similar to Kafka. Now our projects use Pulsar to process stream data, but filebeat don't support it as an input/output source.