# Community beats and keystore?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/community-beats-and-keystore/161367>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [December 18, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/community-beats-and-keystore/161367 "2018-12-18T16:07:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![tlacuache](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tlacuache/32/39003_2.png) [@tlacuache](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tlacuache)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/community-beats-and-keystore/161367/1 "2018-12-18T16:07:31Z")

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Are community beats able to create/use [password keystores](https://www.elastic.co/blog/brewing-in-beats-password-keystore) in the same way as filebeat, metricbeat, auditbeat, etc.?

I've tried using the same pattern to create/populate a keystore with a community beat called protologbeat but it doesn't seem to honor the keystore command, it just starts the beat processor itself.

EDIT: Apparently I was using a community beat based on an older version of libbeat. When I reworked it with the latest stuff the keystore worked fine.

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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:** [January 15, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/community-beats-and-keystore/161367/2 "2019-01-15T16:07:34Z")

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