# Can Metricbeat allows to run a script or unix/application specific commands and to store its output into elastic search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-metricbeat-allows-to-run-a-script-or-unix-application-specific-commands-and-to-store-its-output-into-elastic-search/95638>\
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**Created:** [August 3, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-metricbeat-allows-to-run-a-script-or-unix-application-specific-commands-and-to-store-its-output-into-elastic-search/95638 "2017-08-03T04:07:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![mahadevaprasadap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@mahadevaprasadap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mahadevaprasadap)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-metricbeat-allows-to-run-a-script-or-unix-application-specific-commands-and-to-store-its-output-into-elastic-search/95638/1 "2017-08-03T04:07:26Z")

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For example, if you run “httpd fullstatus” command on a server where Apache Webserver is running, it will output usage statistics. In such case, Metricbeat should be able to either run the command directly or via script.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-metricbeat-allows-to-run-a-script-or-unix-application-specific-commands-and-to-store-its-output-into-elastic-search/95638/2 "2017-08-03T04:18:05Z")

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It cannot.  
This is likely to be made into a module, so it would be great if you can raise a feature request on github that'd be great.

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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 24, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-metricbeat-allows-to-run-a-script-or-unix-application-specific-commands-and-to-store-its-output-into-elastic-search/95638/3 "2017-08-24T04:07:39Z")

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