# Filebeat and CentOS 5

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-and-centos-5/43308>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 2, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-and-centos-5/43308 "2016-03-02T21:07:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Diggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diggy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Diggy)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-and-centos-5/43308/1 "2016-03-02T21:07:59Z")

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As described in this post ([Logstash forwarder with multiple log source types](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-with-multiple-log-source-types/39801)), neither filebeat nor logstash work with CentOS 5 kernel 2.6.18-408. I have several machines with this kernel, and would really like to get either (preferably filebeat) working in them. Has anyone succeeded in doing so?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-and-centos-5/43308/2 "2016-03-03T12:10:57Z")

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The main issue on the filebeat side is that Golang only supports Kernel 2.6.23 and later (see [https://golang.org/doc/install](https://golang.org/doc/install)). There are some threads online that people got some Golang apps running under CentOS 5.x but it always sounds quite hacky and it seems to be older Golang versions.

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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, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-and-centos-5/43308/3 "2017-07-05T21:55:04Z")

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