# Filebeat unable to send logs from windows 2008 R2 server **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [April 10, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-logs-from-windows-2008-r2-server/81755 "2017-04-10T07:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sujith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Sujith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sujith)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-logs-from-windows-2008-r2-server/81755/1 "2017-04-10T07:13:03Z")
i am using Elasticsearch, logstash and kibana version 5.2.0 and to monitor logs from remote servers, i have installed filebeat in respective servers (windows server 2012) and able to get logs from remote servers. Since in non production servers, which we use windows OS 2008 R2. Hence i have installed filebeat in one of the 2008 windows 0S servers and we couldn't able to monitor logs. please suggest. ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-logs-from-windows-2008-r2-server/81755/2 "2017-04-13T11:19:40Z")
So the same setup works on Windows 2012 but not on Windows 2008? We officially don't support 2008 as we don't test on it, see [https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix) Still I would expect it to work. Could you share your config and log outputs on Windows 2008? ---
**Author:** ![Sujith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Sujith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sujith)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-logs-from-windows-2008-r2-server/81755/3 "2017-04-19T03:55:04Z")
Hi Ruflin, Yes i accept as per support matrix, beats will not support in Windows 2008. Also i can see in support matrix as for windows 2008 all the beats 5.x, Binary provided but not supported. Hence i have installed filebeat, packetbeat, metricbeat and winlogbeat in windows 2008 server and i can see data is transferred from windows 2008 server except for filebeat. I need to fetch logs from windows 2008 server with filbeat, Please help what shall i do now. ---
**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-logs-from-windows-2008-r2-server/81755/4 "2017-04-19T13:14:59Z")
> [@ruflin](#): > > Could you share your config and log outputs on Windows 2008? We need some data from you in order to help. ---
**Author:** ![Sujith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Sujith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sujith)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-logs-from-windows-2008-r2-server/81755/5 "2017-04-20T06:37:25Z")
Initially i was using filebeat version 1.3.1 in windows 2008 server which logs was not monitored, Where as i uninstalled and installed filebeat version 5.2 and issue seems to be working fine now. I can able to send the logs from windows 2008 filebeat to windows 2012 server. Thanks for the help 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-logs-from-windows-2008-r2-server/81755/6 "2017-05-18T06:52:32Z")
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