# How to capture with ELK the incoming and outgoing traffic on interface card in RedHat Linux

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-with-elk-the-incoming-and-outgoing-traffic-on-interface-card-in-redhat-linux/44661>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-with-elk-the-incoming-and-outgoing-traffic-on-interface-card-in-redhat-linux/44661 "2016-03-17T07:20:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![rajput1919](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@rajput1919](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajput1919)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-with-elk-the-incoming-and-outgoing-traffic-on-interface-card-in-redhat-linux/44661/1 "2016-03-17T07:20:19Z")

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i want to capture the incoming and outgoing traffic on interface card in linux.  
And show these data for analysis in kibana.

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**Author:** ![Eilyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9adbd/32.png) [@Eilyre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eilyre)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-with-elk-the-incoming-and-outgoing-traffic-on-interface-card-in-redhat-linux/44661/2 "2016-03-17T17:33:58Z")

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Hey, use the Packetbeat forwarder for that. It will do exactly what you want and is easy to set up.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-capture-with-elk-the-incoming-and-outgoing-traffic-on-interface-card-in-redhat-linux/44661/3 "2017-07-06T05:06:36Z")

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