# Filebeat: Configuring Bind Port
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuring-bind-port/42484
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuring-bind-port/42484 "2016-02-23T10:36:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuring-bind-port/42484/1 "2016-02-23T10:36:33Z")
Hi,
Is it possible to configure filebeat so that it binds to a port other than 5044?
Regards,
David
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### Author:  [@ngv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ngv)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuring-bind-port/42484/2 "2016-02-23T10:41:36Z")
Hello,
Do you mean beats input plugin or filbeat log shipper? Because you can put whatever port you want on the input plugin, but the shipper doesn't use port binding. It's a client that connects to the logstash/ES for example.
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### Author:  [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuring-bind-port/42484/3 "2016-02-23T11:44:17Z")
Yeah, apologies this is a red herring. We're having issues with a filebeat instance that won't start though there's no obvious differences compared to another instance which does. i may start another thread for that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuring-bind-port/42484/4 "2017-07-05T21:55:27Z")