# General architectural question re beats & ES

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/general-architectural-question-re-beats-es/147702>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/general-architectural-question-re-beats-es/147702 "2018-09-07T11:23:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![robs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@robs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robs)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/general-architectural-question-re-beats-es/147702/1 "2018-09-07T11:23:38Z")

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Hi all,

I'm going to have to monitor several remote domains consisting of Windows and Linux servers. I want to run beats on all of them. Is there a simple way of concentrating all beats output into one system inside such a domain and from there send it to a central network management system that runs ES and whatever else that would be needed?

Appreciate any hints.

Regards,  
Robs

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**Author:** ![kvch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kvch/32/72058_2.png) [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/general-architectural-question-re-beats-es/147702/2 "2018-09-07T12:59:13Z")

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Usually, Elasticsearch or Kafka are the parts of the architecture which concatenates all Beats outputs into one system. There is no intermediate software between those elements.

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**Author:** ![ariemenschneider](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ariemenschneider/32/33564_2.png) [@ariemenschneider](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ariemenschneider)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/general-architectural-question-re-beats-es/147702/3 "2018-09-18T15:14:07Z")

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It could be a solution to collect the beat outputs in a Logstash instance running in the respective domain and forwarding the different queues from there to a central ES system.

Thats just an idea where to look to. I'm not quite knowledgable if every Beat you are running is able to go through a Logstash queue.

The filter section of the queue(s) would be usually empty:

```auto
input {
  beats {
  }
}
filter {}
output {
  elasticsearch {
  ...
  }
}

```

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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 16, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/general-architectural-question-re-beats-es/147702/4 "2018-10-16T17:14:09Z")

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