# Filebeat on raspberry pi 3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-raspberry-pi-3/303671>\
**Category:** Logs\
**Created:** [May 1, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-raspberry-pi-3/303671 "2022-05-01T13:56:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Dhia\_Saibi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dhia_saibi/32/102422_2.png) [@Dhia\_Saibi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dhia_Saibi)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-raspberry-pi-3/303671/1 "2022-05-01T13:56:36Z")

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I wanna know if is it possible to install filebeat from elasticstack (I need it to get logs file from an indoor camera) on raspberry pi 3 and if yes does anyone have a tutorial or can teach me the process?

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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:** [May 1, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-raspberry-pi-3/303671/2 "2022-05-01T23:27:49Z")

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It's no different to [Set up and run Filebeat | Filebeat Reference [8.1] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/setting-up-and-running.html), just use the aarch64 packages.

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**Author:** ![Dhia\_Saibi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dhia_saibi/32/102422_2.png) [@Dhia\_Saibi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dhia_Saibi)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-raspberry-pi-3/303671/3 "2022-05-02T14:06:32Z")

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Do I have to install Elasticsearch and Kibana with it or there is no need?

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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:** [May 3, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-raspberry-pi-3/303671/4 "2022-05-03T00:22:05Z")

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What are you wanting Filebeat to do with the logs?

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**Author:** ![Dhia\_Saibi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dhia_saibi/32/102422_2.png) [@Dhia\_Saibi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dhia_Saibi)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-raspberry-pi-3/303671/5 "2022-05-03T16:27:13Z")

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I want to send an alert to a mobile application whenever there is a new address ip connected to the camera

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**Author:** ![matschaffer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matschaffer/32/95396_2.png) [@matschaffer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matschaffer)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2022, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-raspberry-pi-3/303671/6 "2022-05-24T04:59:26Z")

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Fwiw, the aarch64 binaries don't seem to work on my RaspberryPi 4

```auto
pi@raspberrypi:~/filebeat-8.2.0-linux-arm64 $ ./filebeat version
-bash: ./filebeat: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

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I documented the process I used for a home project on [Monitoring my home internet with Elastic](https://matschaffer.com/2021/10/04/monitor-home-internet-with-elastic.html)

It looks like the Raspberry Pi 3 only has 1GB of ram which is going to be too small for Elasticsearch and Kibana. You can output to a cloud deployment and alert from there ([https://cloud.elastic.co/](https://cloud.elastic.co/)) though.

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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:** [June 21, 2022, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-raspberry-pi-3/303671/7 "2022-06-21T04:59:51Z")

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