# Filebeat use default port instead of my port

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-use-default-port-instead-of-my-port/254756>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 9, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-use-default-port-instead-of-my-port/254756 "2020-11-09T12:27:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rony](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rony)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-use-default-port-instead-of-my-port/254756/1 "2020-11-09T12:27:01Z")

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my filebeat.yml looks like this:

```auto
filebeat.inputs:

- type: log
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - /var/logs/mylog.log

#============================= Filebeat modules ===============================

filebeat.config.modules:
  # Glob pattern for configuration loading
  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml

  # Set to true to enable config reloading
  reload.enabled: true

  # Period on which files under path should be checked for changes
  #reload.period: 10s

output:
  logstash:
    hosts: ["https://mylogstash_FQDN:8044"]
    ssl.certificate_authorities:
      - /etc/filebeat/config/certs/certfile.crt

```

The error message from filebeat log is:  
Failed to connect to backoff(async(tcp://[https://mylogstash\_FQDN:8044]:5044)): lookup https://mylogstash\_FQDN:8044: no such host

Why Filebeat takes the port as part of my FQDN (DNS name of my Logstash server?

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**Author:** ![mtojek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mtojek/32/63863_2.png) [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-use-default-port-instead-of-my-port/254756/2 "2020-11-09T16:04:52Z")

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Which beats version are you using?

Did you try without specifying `https://`?

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**Author:** ![rony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@rony](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rony)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-use-default-port-instead-of-my-port/254756/3 "2020-11-10T08:25:11Z")

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Thanks - that was my mistake. I took it out and now it's working like a charm 🙂

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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:** [December 8, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-use-default-port-instead-of-my-port/254756/4 "2020-12-08T10:25:18Z")

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