# How to have filebeat as part of my application installer

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-have-filebeat-as-part-of-my-application-installer/89208>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 13, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-have-filebeat-as-part-of-my-application-installer/89208 "2017-06-13T14:23:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rubaiyat\_Islam\_Sadat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rubaiyat\_Islam\_Sadat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rubaiyat_Islam_Sadat)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-have-filebeat-as-part-of-my-application-installer/89208/1 "2017-06-13T14:23:27Z")

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quite new into this topic, sorry if this is quite naive question. I would like to make filebeat part of the installer of my Java application. also my application will run on multiple OS platforms (Windows, Linux, OSX). any help in this regard will be much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-have-filebeat-as-part-of-my-application-installer/89208/2 "2017-06-14T23:50:57Z")

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If you are distributing a platform independent package you will need to include all three Filebeat variants (windows, linux, macos) in your package.

You could have app write out the config for Filebeat and then exec the Filebeat binary. Just an idea.

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**Author:** ![Rubaiyat\_Islam\_Sadat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/958977/32.png) [@Rubaiyat\_Islam\_Sadat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rubaiyat_Islam_Sadat)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-have-filebeat-as-part-of-my-application-installer/89208/3 "2017-06-18T16:41:40Z")

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hi Andrew, thanks for the reply. Could you give an example, a bit more concrete pseudo workflow?

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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 16, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-have-filebeat-as-part-of-my-application-installer/89208/4 "2017-07-16T16:41:53Z")

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