# Filebeat Azure Module Pipeline Functions

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-azure-module-pipeline-functions/236062>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 6, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-azure-module-pipeline-functions/236062 "2020-06-06T23:02:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![craigothy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@craigothy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/craigothy)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-azure-module-pipeline-functions/236062/1 "2020-06-06T23:02:26Z")

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Could someone tell me what the difference is between the different azure module pipelines are? For example, I see:  
filebeat-7.6.2-azure-activitylogs-pipleline  
AND  
filebeat-7.6.2-azure-activitylogs-azure-shared-pipeline

Not sure of what the use cases are for each of these? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-azure-module-pipeline-functions/236062/2 "2020-06-08T19:35:57Z")

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Hi @craigothy,

The `azure` Filebeat module consists of 3 filesets: `activitylogs`, `auditlogs`, and `signinlogs`. Each of them define their own ingest pipelines, e.g. `filebeat-7.6.2-azure-activitylogs-pipeline`, to perform processing specific to that fileset. However, internally, each of them also need to do some common processing that's not specific to that fileset. This common processing is defined in a shared pipeline. Because of the way Filebeat is currently implemented, you get 3 copies of the shared pipeline, one for each fileset, but their contents should all be the same.

In short, you can ignore the `*-azure-shared-pipeline` pipelines. They are for internal use by the other `azure` ingest pipelines.

Hope that helps,

Shaunak

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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, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-azure-module-pipeline-functions/236062/3 "2020-07-06T21:36:05Z")

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