# Filebeat UDP input problem setting up on Windows

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-udp-input-problem-setting-up-on-windows/200605>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 22, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-udp-input-problem-setting-up-on-windows/200605 "2019-09-22T19:22:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-udp-input-problem-setting-up-on-windows/200605/1 "2019-09-22T19:22:08Z")

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Hello,

Trying to send some syslog to a Filebeat running on my Windows 10 device. Filebeat configuration:

```
- type: udp
  max_message_size: 10KiB
  host: "localhost:10514"
  pipeline: filebeat-pfsense

```

Now although I can see the syslog coming in with Wireshark:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/5/95ea9b53181ddfa311c759a58fd66bb1baa24a9a.png)  
The data is not ingested in elasticsearch..

Windows Firewall is off. Enabled debug in filebeat.yml

Relevant logs:

```
2019-09-22T20:55:48.089+0200	INFO	input/input.go:114	Starting input of type: udp; ID: 10874948813930738873 
2019-09-22T20:55:48.089+0200	INFO	crawler/crawler.go:106	Loading and starting Inputs completed. Enabled inputs: 1
2019-09-22T20:55:48.089+0200	INFO	udp/input.go:102	Starting UDP input
2019-09-22T20:55:48.092+0200	INFO	[udp]	udp/server.go:81	Started listening for UDP connection	{"address": "localhost:10514"}
2019-09-22T20:58:18.101+0200|DEBUG|[input]|input/input.go:152|Run input|
2019-09-22T20:58:28.101+0200|DEBUG|[input]|input/input.go:152|Run input|
2019-09-22T20:58:38.102+0200|DEBUG|[input]|input/input.go:152|Run input|

```

Someone any idea why the syslog is not ingested in elasticsearch? Other logs I added work fine. Simulating my pipeline also works fine. What does "Run input" mean?

Anyone any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Willem

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-udp-input-problem-setting-up-on-windows/200605/2 "2019-09-23T05:01:20Z")

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Perhaps try the IP address of the filebeat host not localhost since that is usually tied to loopback example

`host: "192.168.1.101:10514"`

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**Author:** ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-udp-input-problem-setting-up-on-windows/200605/3 "2019-09-23T17:10:46Z")

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Hello Stephen,

Thank you very much for the suggestion, logs are indexed as expected atm!

Willem

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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:** [October 21, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-udp-input-problem-setting-up-on-windows/200605/4 "2019-10-21T17:10:46Z")

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