# How to create a new Beats output?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-new-beats-output/61074>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [September 21, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-new-beats-output/61074 "2016-09-21T04:06:59Z")\
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@ruflin, thank you for the input. Does this mean, I clone filebeat and libbeat and then modify filebeat's main.go and libbeat/publisher/publish.go and build ?

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