# How to limit bandwidth usage of Windows Filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-bandwidth-usage-of-windows-filebeat/385357>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 6, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-bandwidth-usage-of-windows-filebeat/385357 "2026-03-06T00:54:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![waitspring](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/waitspring/32/124922_2.png) [@waitspring](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/waitspring)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-bandwidth-usage-of-windows-filebeat/385357/1 "2026-03-06T00:54:15Z")

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Hello, every big brothers:

I installed Filebeat in Windows Server 2012, and make Filebeat send log data to Kafka.

I want to limit Filebeat’s bandwidth usage in 50Kbit, because my Windows Server 2012 only has 2Mbit bandwidth.

I read many discussions to learn a way, but there is only Linux situation. like: [Filebeat uses too much bandwidth | Beats](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/filebeat/bandwidth-throttling)

How can i do these in Windows Server 2012?

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**Author:** ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2026, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-bandwidth-usage-of-windows-filebeat/385357/2 "2026-03-06T06:18:36Z")

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Hello @waitspring

Seems for Windows we might have to use QoS :

> **[How to configure network Traffic Throttling with Windows.
		 · Customer...](https://kb.catalogicsoftware.com/s/article/45991)**

Thanks!!