# Does Filebeat support output to S3?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-support-output-to-s3/203499
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 14, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-support-output-to-s3/203499 "2019-10-14T17:29:52Z")
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### Author: ![john\_eapen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@john\_eapen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/john_eapen)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-support-output-to-s3/203499/1 "2019-10-14T17:29:52Z")

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Is there an output plugging for AWS S3 ? Need to send container logs to S3.

Thanks  
John

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### Author: ![Michael\_Madden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael_madden/32/46640_2.png) [@Michael\_Madden](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Madden)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-support-output-to-s3/203499/2 "2019-10-14T17:51:43Z")

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Hi, thanks for reaching out. Do you currently use logstash in your environment? Filebeat does not support outputing to S3, but there is a logstash plugin for S3.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-s3.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-s3.html)

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuring-output.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuring-output.html)

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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: [November 11, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-filebeat-support-output-to-s3/203499/3 "2019-11-11T17:51:45Z")

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