# Does logstash filebeat support reading from redis

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-filebeat-support-reading-from-redis/50975>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 25, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-filebeat-support-reading-from-redis/50975 "2016-05-25T17:19:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![divya\_hc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@divya\_hc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/divya_hc)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-filebeat-support-reading-from-redis/50975/1 "2016-05-25T17:19:55Z")

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Hi,  
I am new to ELK. Have been reading the docs. But was not clear if this use case is supported and what plugin to use?  
We have client servers which stores events data in redis. We would like to store these centrally in the elastic search and analyse the log data.

Referring to this link: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/deploying-and-scaling.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/deploying-and-scaling.html)

My question is, if i can use filebeat to read the data from redis and forward to beatsinput plugin on the logstash indexer??

Looking at the filebeat config file, the prospectors takes only file paths,  
if i have to read from the redis, what should be the file path??

Really appreciate your help!

Thanks,  
Divya

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-filebeat-support-reading-from-redis/50975/2 "2016-05-25T20:29:31Z")

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> My question is, if i can use filebeat to read the data from redis and forward to beatsinput plugin on the logstash indexer??

No, that doesn't make sense. Filebeat reads files. Logstash can read from Redis directly.

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**Author:** ![divya\_hc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@divya\_hc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/divya_hc)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-filebeat-support-reading-from-redis/50975/3 "2016-05-25T20:37:00Z")

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Thanks Magnus for the response.  
Could you please point me to some examples of logstash reading from the redis?

Thanks,  
Divya

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**Author:** ![divya\_hc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@divya\_hc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/divya_hc)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-filebeat-support-reading-from-redis/50975/4 "2016-05-25T21:38:56Z")

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Never mind. I was able to read the log data from redis server.

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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 6, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-logstash-filebeat-support-reading-from-redis/50975/5 "2017-07-06T04:56:11Z")

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