# Filebeat run at startup

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-run-at-startup/304802>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 16, 2022, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-run-at-startup/304802 "2022-05-16T10:14:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ibra\_013](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ibra_013/32/104827_2.png) [@ibra\_013](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ibra_013)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-run-at-startup/304802/3 "2022-05-16T14:38:02Z")

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Hi,

check this too,

> **[Install Elastic Filebeat as daemon on OSX - Koen Van Impe - vanimpe.eu](https://www.vanimpe.eu/2021/09/25/install-elastic-filebeat-as-daemon-on-osx/)**
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> Install Elastic Filebeat as daemon on OSX - Koen Van Impe - vanimpe.eu - Filebeat Filebeat is a lightweight shipper for logs. You can use it to collect logs from endpoints and store them centrally in Elastic. You can use it to

> [@Deploying Filebeat on MacOS X](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploying-filebeat-on-macos-x/37785/11):
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> This is the plist file I put into /Library/LaunchDaemons/: \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?\> \<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"\> \<plist version="1.0"\> \<dict\> \<key\>Label\</key\> \<string\>co.elastic.filebeat\</string\> \<key\>ProgramArguments\</key\> \<array\> \<string\>/Applications/Filebeat/filebeat\</string\> \<string\>-c\</string\> \<string\>/Applications/Filebeat/filebeat.yml\</string\> \</array\> …

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