# Do we need to install filebeats on client and elk server

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-need-to-install-filebeats-on-client-and-elk-server/55454>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 13, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-need-to-install-filebeats-on-client-and-elk-server/55454 "2016-07-13T23:52:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![dubul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@dubul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dubul)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-need-to-install-filebeats-on-client-and-elk-server/55454/1 "2016-07-13T23:52:49Z")

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I want to send logs from windows machine. I'm having issues with path of input file and output for elk stack. Can you provide me some example config on client and elk server machine.

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-need-to-install-filebeats-on-client-and-elk-server/55454/2 "2016-07-14T01:51:09Z")

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Seems like a duplicate of:

> [@I want to send logs from a windows machine to windows elk server](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-want-to-send-logs-from-a-windows-machine-to-windows-elk-server/55452):
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> my logs are located in d:\app\logs in a windows machine. i want to send logs to elk server. I tried using file beat. I dont see any errors and could'nt see any logs on elk server. Can anyone provide me configs for filebeat on client and elk server. My another question is do we need to install filebeat on both the machines? can we directly send the output from filebeat to elasticsearch?

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-we-need-to-install-filebeats-on-client-and-elk-server/55454/3 "2016-07-14T01:51:14Z")

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