Can we both enable outputs for Elasticsearch and Logstash?

Elastic Stack Beats
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I want to my Logs to output both Elasticsearch and Logstash , can I config like the below?

#================================ Outputs =====================================

Configure what outputs to use when sending the data collected by the beat.

Multiple outputs may be used.

#-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------
output.elasticsearch:

Array of hosts to connect to.

hosts: ["localhost:9200"]

#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
output.logstash:

The Logstash hosts

hosts: ["localhost:5044"]

2

In Beats 6.x the support for multiple outputs at the same time was removed. So the above works in 5.x but not 6.x.

3

So any workaround exists in beats 6.x? such as run two beat instances in the same server?

4

Yes, you can run two or more Beats instances. The only thing you need to be careful is to make sure they use a different data directory especially in the case of Filebeat.

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