# How to get monitoring data over Kafka?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-monitoring-data-over-kafka/210131>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-monitoring-data-over-kafka/210131 "2019-12-02T07:58:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![MarcusCaepio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcuscaepio/32/32458_2.png) [@MarcusCaepio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcusCaepio)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2019, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-monitoring-data-over-kafka/210131/1 "2019-12-02T07:58:37Z")

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Hi all,  
in a DMZ, the beats are sending their data to a Kafka. Logstash is getting this data from the internal net out of Kafka. So the beats are not able to connect to elasticsearch itself.  
How do I get the beat's monitoring data into elastic?

Cheers,  
Marcus

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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:** [December 30, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-monitoring-data-over-kafka/210131/2 "2019-12-30T09:58:37Z")

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