# How to send apache logs using filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-apache-logs-using-filebeat/133800>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 30, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-apache-logs-using-filebeat/133800 "2018-05-30T06:20:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saketh\_Chandra\_Kolis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Saketh\_Chandra\_Kolis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saketh_Chandra_Kolis)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-apache-logs-using-filebeat/133800/1 "2018-05-30T06:20:55Z")

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hi,  
I am new to filebeat. I didn't understand the filebeat documentation.In filebeat.yml when the you specify the path to directory which has your log files,how are the going get parsed,is there any use of config file which had the intelligence to enrich the field,does filebeat have the intelligence to enrich the fields automatically.If anyone can help that would be great

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-apache-logs-using-filebeat/133800/2 "2018-05-30T06:22:42Z")

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Filebeat ships files, it doesn't parse them.

If you use this - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-module-apache2.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-module-apache2.html) - it'll do the steps it describes so that they are parsed, but again Filebeat doesn't do that, it just sets up other steps to do it.

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**Author:** ![Saketh\_Chandra\_Kolis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Saketh\_Chandra\_Kolis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saketh_Chandra_Kolis)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-apache-logs-using-filebeat/133800/3 "2018-05-30T07:05:18Z")

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hi,  
there is no documentation available for windows OS for enabling apache module

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-apache-logs-using-filebeat/133800/4 "2018-05-30T22:14:01Z")

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The commands are the same for Windows and other OS's.

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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:** [June 27, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-send-apache-logs-using-filebeat/133800/5 "2018-06-27T22:14:03Z")

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