# Check if logstash is working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-is-working/221281>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-is-working/221281 "2020-02-27T16:31:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![calanon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/calanon/32/64004_2.png) [@calanon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/calanon)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-is-working/221281/1 "2020-02-27T16:31:35Z")

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I have a filebeat running and I can see in the logs that it is parsing my log files. The check config worked and it stated that everything is ok. I goto logstash and I have a filebeat.conf in the conf.d folder. Inside this file the input is declared with the output port declared in the filebeat instance. How can I check that logstash is actually receiving data from filebeat. Once I have established this then I see to be able to figure out how I know logstash is sending the data to elasticsearch.

**By the way my filebeats version is 7.6.0 and my logstash version is 6.2.4 are they compatible?**

Any help would be great thanks Cal

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**Author:** ![rugenl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rugenl/32/12887_2.png) [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-is-working/221281/2 "2020-02-27T21:47:11Z")

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Logstash has [monitoring api's](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/monitoring-logstash.html). You can see event counts in and sent on to Elastic if you dig into the data. I use these stats in another monitor to watch for low/high rate and queue depth by pipelines and other things.

You appear to be outside the [compatibility matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#matrix_compatibility) with those versions.

That said, if you are only using filebeat features that existed at the time of 6.2 it might work. If it breaks, you own all the pieces 🙂

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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:** [March 26, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-is-working/221281/3 "2020-03-26T21:47:15Z")

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