# Filebeat installation using tar and configurations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-using-tar-and-configurations/308536>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 30, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-using-tar-and-configurations/308536 "2022-06-30T05:51:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![navin1093](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e47c2d/32.png) [@navin1093](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/navin1093)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-using-tar-and-configurations/308536/1 "2022-06-30T05:51:14Z")

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Hi all, I installed filebeat using tar. Can I know where it is configure for the registry and config files. For example the location of below fields

--path.config  
-- path.data  
-- path.logs

How should i start the filebeat ya. is this sufficient?  
/filebeat

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-using-tar-and-configurations/308536/2 "2022-06-30T07:00:51Z")

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They would be under wherever you extracted the tar.gz.

You should be able to start Filebeat with that, yes.

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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 28, 2022, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-installation-using-tar-and-configurations/308536/3 "2022-07-28T09:01:51Z")

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