# Filtered and unfiltered outputs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtered-and-unfiltered-outputs/140239
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtered-and-unfiltered-outputs/140239 "2018-07-17T02:46:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@rocknroll](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rocknroll)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtered-and-unfiltered-outputs/140239/1 "2018-07-17T02:46:17Z")
I would like to be able to take a copy of each incoming Beats event and output directly to a file, then pass the events through a filter and output to Elasticsearch, i.e.
Input-\>Output (file)-\>Filter-\>Output(Elasticsearch).
Of course what will happen is Input-\>Filter-\>Output(file)-\>Output(Elasticsearch).
Does anyone know of a way to create both filtered and unfiltered outputs from within one pipeline?
Many thanks
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### Author:  [@paz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paz)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtered-and-unfiltered-outputs/140239/2 "2018-07-17T07:20:18Z")
You can use the [clone](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-clone.html) filter to create a copy of the original event with another type or a certain tag and use that tag as a filtering condition for extra filters or outputs.
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### Author:  [@rocknroll](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rocknroll)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtered-and-unfiltered-outputs/140239/3 "2018-07-18T02:16:20Z")
Thank you paz, that looks exactly like what I need
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filtered-and-unfiltered-outputs/140239/4 "2018-08-15T02:16:28Z")
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