# Filebeat configuration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration/307974>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** docker, filebeat\
**Created:** [June 23, 2022, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration/307974 "2022-06-23T09:28:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ronald1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce7236/32.png) [@Ronald1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ronald1)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration/307974/1 "2022-06-23T09:28:25Z")

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Hello all,

This week I started looking into ELK to monitor our K8s cluster. Sorry if this is a newbie question 🙂

I installed ELK (Elastic and Kibana) on a separate VM (not running on K8s) using Docker Compose as documented here: [Running the Elastic Stack ("ELK") on Docker | Getting Started [8.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-get-started/current/get-started-stack-docker.html#get-started-docker-tls)

On a separate K8s cluster I'm running Filebeat as documented here: [Run Filebeat on Kubernetes | Filebeat Reference [8.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/running-on-kubernetes.html)

So far so good, using the Observability / Logs (stream) I can see the logs from the K8s cluster coming into ELK.

Reading the documentation (e.g. [Run Filebeat on Kubernetes | Filebeat Reference [8.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/running-on-kubernetes.html) and [Monitoring Kubernetes the Elastic way using Filebeat and Metricbeat | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/monitoring-kubernetes-the-elastic-way-using-filebeat-and-metricbeat)), I'm a little confused about the following:

- Should I also install Filebeat (using Docker) on the ELK stack itself, besides running Filebeat on the K8s cluster?
- Especially with respect to the out-of-the-box Kibana dashboards for Filebeat? See [Run Filebeat on Kubernetes | Filebeat Reference [8.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/running-on-kubernetes.html#_load_kibana_dashboards)
- Is there any Integration / App / Dashboard for Kibana you recommend using to view/inspect/analyse the logs coming in from the Filebeat running on K8s besides using the Log application in Kibana?

Many thanks!

Ronald

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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 21, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration/307974/2 "2022-07-21T11:29:24Z")

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