# Configure logstash input from database values?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-logstash-input-from-database-values/32763
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [October 22, 2015, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-logstash-input-from-database-values/32763 "2015-10-22T10:18:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jsps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsps)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-logstash-input-from-database-values/32763/1 "2015-10-22T10:18:30Z")
I've got a dynamic number of sites. There is a RESTful api on each site that is used to consume their logs. The RESTful endpoint for each site is stored in a single DB on server x. I want to create a logstash input plugin to consume the logs from each of these sites on server x, filter them and output to elasticsearch.
I cant have a logstash forwarder on the sites.
Is it possible for an input plugin to read the endpoint data from a db or service or whatever, and then consume all of the logs for the sites.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-logstash-input-from-database-values/32763/2 "2015-10-22T11:13:03Z")
Sure, a custom input plugin can read its configuration from any source. However, you can't pass that information to other input plugins. What you can do is wrap/subclass the input plugin(s) you want to use and thereby pass the dynamic configuration to the underlying code. How easy this actually is depends on the input plugin.
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### Author:  [@jsps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsps)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-logstash-input-from-database-values/32763/3 "2015-10-22T11:19:17Z")
Thanks Magnus. So for example a single instance of logstash can have a single custom input plugin that reads its configuration from a DB, and then consume 20 logs from 20 different endpoints? I don't think I'd need to use any other input plugins although I'm new to logstash so maybe I don't understand enough.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-logstash-input-from-database-values/32763/4 "2015-10-22T11:28:42Z")
You're on the right track.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-logstash-input-from-database-values/32763/5 "2017-07-06T05:25:46Z")