# Filebeat in a docker container
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-a-docker-container/264864
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [February 19, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-a-docker-container/264864 "2021-02-19T13:45:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@smm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smm)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-a-docker-container/264864/1 "2021-02-19T13:45:14Z")
Dear community,
I have a server on openstack. This target I can reach from everywhere else beside from inside the filebeat docker on my laptop.
If I make an ip add on my laptop I get a bunch of IPs. All these IPs I can reach from inside the conainer. A ping to the target from inside the filebeat container is not possible - but possible from my laptop where the container runs.
That is why I get this error:
2021-02-19T13:28:42.177Z ERROR [publisher\_pipeline\_output] pipeline/output.go:155 Failed to connect to backoff(async(tcp://10.98.146.18:5044)): dial tcp 10.98.146.18:5044: i/o timeout
2021-02-19T13:28:42.178Z INFO [publisher\_pipeline\_output] pipeline/output.go:146 Attempting to reconnect to backoff(async(tcp://10.98.146.18:5044)) with 8 reconnect attempt(s)
Do you perhaps know how I can start the dock container / do so that it also finds / reach the target Ip? I do not understand the reason for this behaviour
Thank you and kind regards
Stefano
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### Author:  [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-a-docker-container/264864/2 "2021-02-19T16:49:05Z")
Hey @smm,
This is more a question about networking 🙂
Do you access to this server on OpenStack through some VPN?
Can filebeat access the server if you run it on the host network (with `--net=host`)?
Take a look to this question in stack overflow, it may be the a similar thing: [networking - Docker container and host network VPN - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33904647/docker-container-and-host-network-vpn)
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### Author:  [@smm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smm)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-a-docker-container/264864/3 "2021-02-20T08:42:31Z")
Hi jsoriano,
thanks for the input.
I found the solution I would like to share now:
docker run
--rm
--net host
--name=filebeat
--user=root
--volume="$(pwd)/filebeat.docker-local.yml:/usr/share/filebeat/filebeat.yml:ro"
--volume="/var/lib/docker/containers:/var/lib/docker/containers:ro"
--volume="/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro"
[docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:7.8.1](http://docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:7.8.1) filebeat -e -strict.perms=false
Running on latets linux mint.
The --net host made the difference!
cheers
Stefano
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-a-docker-container/264864/4 "2021-03-20T10:42:43Z")
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