# How do I verify that packetbeat transmits data to Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-verify-that-packetbeat-transmits-data-to-elasticsearch/300297>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [March 22, 2022, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-verify-that-packetbeat-transmits-data-to-elasticsearch/300297 "2022-03-22T08:28:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![BlackFox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@BlackFox](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BlackFox)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-verify-that-packetbeat-transmits-data-to-elasticsearch/300297/1 "2022-03-22T08:28:10Z")

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Now I have two hosts. ES and Kibana are deployed on host A (Ubuntu, single network card) and packetbeat is deployed on host B (Ubuntu, dual network card). Host B can open ports 9200 and 5601 of host A by using Firefox browser.  
The problem is that host B does not transmit JSON data to ES of host A. How do I check and set

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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:** [March 24, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-verify-that-packetbeat-transmits-data-to-elasticsearch/300297/2 "2022-03-24T14:22:59Z")

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Did you try to run packetbeat with debug mode enabled? Could you please share the beat configuration?

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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:** [April 21, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-verify-that-packetbeat-transmits-data-to-elasticsearch/300297/3 "2022-04-21T16:23:02Z")

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