# Filebeat for zLinux (IBM mainframe zOS Linux)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-zlinux-ibm-mainframe-zos-linux/191662>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 22, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-zlinux-ibm-mainframe-zos-linux/191662 "2019-07-22T14:34:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![jiawang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@jiawang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jiawang)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-zlinux-ibm-mainframe-zos-linux/191662/1 "2019-07-22T14:34:04Z")

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We want to use filebeat to get some app logs on zLinux which is linux mainframe version provided by IBM zOS. It is not intel based system, it is IBM S/390 machine.

what we did was the follow two steps (which worked with Red Hat Linux)

curl -L -O [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.2.0-x86\_64.rpm](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.2.0-x86_64.rpm)  
rpm -vi filebeat-7.2.0-x86\_64.rpm

the rpm was not successful, we got an message as "package filebeat-7.2.0-1.x86\_64 is intended for a different architecture". Should believe this would be the same with metricbeat which we didnt try.

Any suggestion for making filebeat work on zLinux. BTW: splunk works on zLinux (we can collect logs on zLinux with splunk).

thanks.

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**Author:** ![jiawang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@jiawang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jiawang)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-zlinux-ibm-mainframe-zos-linux/191662/2 "2019-07-25T13:55:29Z")

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Any comments/feedback from elasticsearch filebeat support & product team regarding this question??

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**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-zlinux-ibm-mainframe-zos-linux/191662/3 "2019-07-25T17:25:34Z")

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@jiawang We do not currently support that architecture., I know that some [walkthrough exist](https://github.com/linux-on-ibm-z/docs/wiki/Building-Beats) to compile to that architecture. But I haven't tested it.

We also have this issue open [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/8486](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/8486) for some time.

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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:** [August 22, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-zlinux-ibm-mainframe-zos-linux/191662/4 "2019-08-22T17:25:38Z")

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