# Can Packetbeat just be used to show traffic going from a server?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-packetbeat-just-be-used-to-show-traffic-going-from-a-server/184420>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [June 5, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-packetbeat-just-be-used-to-show-traffic-going-from-a-server/184420 "2019-06-05T16:23:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![nlh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f9ae1b/32.png) [@nlh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nlh)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-packetbeat-just-be-used-to-show-traffic-going-from-a-server/184420/1 "2019-06-05T16:23:28Z")

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Not a network expert at all, but have some monitoring set up using Auditbeat and the Elastic Stack.

We are interest in identifying files that are being transferred of a server, what the file is called, who requested it and where it is being transferred to.

Is this something Packetbeat can help with?"

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-packetbeat-just-be-used-to-show-traffic-going-from-a-server/184420/2 "2019-06-10T15:59:43Z")

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What protocols are being used to make these request for files? Are any of them listed at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/packetbeat-overview.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/packetbeat-overview.html)?

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**Author:** ![nlh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f9ae1b/32.png) [@nlh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nlh)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-packetbeat-just-be-used-to-show-traffic-going-from-a-server/184420/3 "2019-06-10T16:14:15Z")

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Hi Andrew. Thanks for getting back to me.

Not 100% sure, but I can try and find out. There are probably 2 main types of thing we are trying to monitor.

- Access via a mapped network drive (Samba or smb)
- Access via an SFTP client such as Filezilla

Not sure which protocols either of these will use, but will try and find out.

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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 8, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-packetbeat-just-be-used-to-show-traffic-going-from-a-server/184420/4 "2019-07-08T16:14:15Z")

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