# Filebeat installation as service but under custom folder
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-as-service-but-under-custom-folder/152915
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 17, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-as-service-but-under-custom-folder/152915 "2018-10-17T21:30:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@shivaprasadrao.b](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shivaprasadrao.b)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-as-service-but-under-custom-folder/152915/1 "2018-10-17T21:30:38Z")
I have setup filbeat using below:
**curl -L -O [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.4.0-x86\_64.rpm](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.4.0-x86_64.rpm)**
**sudo rpm -vi filebeat-6.4.0-x86\_64.rpm**
Filebeat is successfully set up as service, but the filebeat related files like filebeat.yml is created under **/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml** and log file in **/var/log/filebeat**.
My question is can i install filebeat as service as above but all the filebeat related files should be under my custom folder say **/opt/ELK/filebeat** instead of **/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml** or **/var/log/filebeat**.
Is this possible ?
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@shivaprasadrao.b](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shivaprasadrao.b)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-as-service-but-under-custom-folder/152915/2 "2018-10-18T21:02:55Z")
I have achieved this by using system service.Below are the details:
i have created filebeat.service with below details:
[Unit]
Description=filebeat
[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/ELK/filebeat.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
and my filebeat.sh has below data:
#!/bin/sh
dstamp=`date '+%Y%m%d%H%M'`
LOG\_FILE=/opt/ELK/filebeat.log
sDate=`date '+%Y-%m-%d %r'`
echo $sDate '::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::' \>\> $LOG\_FILE
echo $sDate 'Start of filebeat' \>\> $LOG\_FILE
cd /opt/ELK/filebeat-6.4.0-linux-x86\_64
./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml -d "publish"
echo $sDate 'END of filebeat' \>\> $LOG\_FILE
echo $sDate '::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::' \>\> $LOG\_FILE
after that run below commands:
systemctl enable filebeat
systemctl status filebeat
systemctl start filebeat
systemctl stop filebeat
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-as-service-but-under-custom-folder/152915/3 "2018-10-19T12:28:25Z")
Have you considered to install filebeat from the tgz file or create your own rpm based on the tgz file? When installing via `rpm`, the rpm database tracks installed packages and files/locations. Moving files kind of messes with these meta-data. Plus, when updating filebeat via rpm you don't want it to overwrite your systemd script.
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### Author:  [@shivaprasadrao.b](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shivaprasadrao.b)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-as-service-but-under-custom-folder/152915/4 "2018-10-31T08:33:14Z")
Hey Steffens,
I installed filebeat from .tar.gz .
I have unzipped the tar.gz in my custom location it and made necessary changes to .yml file.
Then i have created services as per my requirement.
Thanks
Shivaprasad
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2018, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-as-service-but-under-custom-folder/152915/5 "2018-11-28T08:46:10Z")
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