# Filebeat multiple outputs

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multiple-outputs/374668
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** timelion
**Created:** [February 18, 2025, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multiple-outputs/374668 "2025-02-18T07:05:05Z")
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#### Post date: [February 18, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-multiple-outputs/374668/2 "2025-02-18T10:51:32Z")

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Hi @Thirupathi,

Welcome! Multiple outputs is not supported by Filebeat [as covered by this post from 2020](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-file-beat-to-multiple-output/235471). However, as you'll see from the post, you can run 2 instances of Filebeat, with one sending directly to Kafka and the other to Elasticsearch.

There isn't really a way to detect Kafka is down and redirect to Elasticsearch.

Hope that helps!

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