# Does excuse me filebeat support input to kafka？

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 14, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211 "2016-01-14T09:26:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![clifford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@clifford](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/clifford)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211/1 "2016-01-14T09:26:13Z")

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Does excuse me， filebeat support input to kafka, want to this architecture: filebeat - \> kakfa -- -- -- -- \> logstash - \> elasticsearch - \> kibana?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211/2 "2016-01-14T09:27:29Z")

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Filebeat only support direct to ES or to LS.

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**Author:** ![clifford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@clifford](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/clifford)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211/3 "2016-01-14T09:33:50Z")

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Aha，ok thanks！

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**Author:** ![clifford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@clifford](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/clifford)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211/4 "2016-01-14T09:42:48Z")

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If I want to made with kafka log queue processing, how to join in filebeat environment kakfa service?This architecture is feasible filebeat - \> [logstash + kafka] - \> [LS + ES + Kibana]?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211/5 "2016-01-14T10:07:51Z")

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You can use the beats input + kafka output, if that is what you mean?

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**Author:** ![clifford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@clifford](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/clifford)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211/6 "2016-01-14T10:40:17Z")

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You mean kafka can direct to Es?this filebeat to logstash then to kafka and then to Es?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211/7 "2016-01-14T21:34:27Z")

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It needs to be Beats \> Logstash \> kafka \> LS \> ES.

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**Author:** ![clifford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@clifford](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/clifford)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211/8 "2016-01-15T02:39:26Z")

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thank you very much. I will test.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-excuse-me-filebeat-support-input-to-kafka/39211/9 "2017-07-05T21:56:41Z")

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