# Conditional filebeat output to logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-filebeat-output-to-logstash/156303>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 12, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-filebeat-output-to-logstash/156303 "2018-11-12T14:35:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![rrs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@rrs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rrs)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-filebeat-output-to-logstash/156303/1 "2018-11-12T14:35:54Z")

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Hi All,

We have done setup of ELK with 5.6.3 and filebeat-5.6.3 also installed on hosts to push logs. It is running fine. We need segregation for prod/dev indexes for which we have done another setup for my 'dev' environment logs and filebeat remained same on app hosts.

After went through several documentation I couldn't find the way. Our requirement is split the output to logstash i.e document\_type 'prod' should go to production logstash/elasticsearch, while document\_type 'dev' should go to dev logstash/elasticsearch.

Please suggest on this.

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-filebeat-output-to-logstash/156303/2 "2018-11-12T21:04:36Z")

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Filebeat does not support multiple outputs, so to not accidentally couple production and dev environments. Normally users configure 2 filebeat instances in this case. One for production and another one for dev.

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**Author:** ![rrs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@rrs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rrs)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-filebeat-output-to-logstash/156303/3 "2018-11-13T14:26:32Z")

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Hi,

Thank you. We configured another filebeat yml file. Now, it is working as expected.

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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:** [December 11, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-filebeat-output-to-logstash/156303/4 "2018-12-11T14:26:38Z")

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