# How to setup Kafka output in Filebeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-setup-kafka-output-in-filebeat/67154
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [November 25, 2016, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-setup-kafka-output-in-filebeat/67154 "2016-11-25T05:53:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@elasticheart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticheart)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2016, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-setup-kafka-output-in-filebeat/67154/1 "2016-11-25T05:53:42Z")
Hi,
I have the following Filebeat configuration;
```
output.kafka:
enabled: true
hosts: ["192.168.0.1:"]
topic: testtopic
```
What port should I provide here? I am entirely new to Kafka. I have Kafka installed and I have the following config files under config folder;
- connect-console-sink.properties
- connect-console-source.properties
- connect-distributed.properties
- connect-file-sink.properties
- connect-file-source.properties
- connect-log4j.properties
- connect-standalone.properties
- consumer.properties
- log4j.properties
- producer.properties
- server.properties
- tools-log4j.properties
- zookeeper.properties
I have seen `clientPort=2181` in **zookeeper.properties** and `bootstrap.servers=192.168.0.1:9092` in **producer.properties**. So, what port should I mention in filebeat and where can I get that from?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-setup-kafka-output-in-filebeat/67154/2 "2016-11-28T15:30:20Z")
In `hosts` setting you normally configure you bootstrapping brokers. These will provide the cluster meta-data used to find all brokers in the cluster. The kafka brokers normally use port 9092 (search for 'listeners' in server.propoerties).
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### Author:  [@elasticheart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticheart)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-setup-kafka-output-in-filebeat/67154/3 "2016-11-29T05:14:07Z")
Thank you so much @steffens People like you is the most important part of a discussion forum like this. There may be persons who already know solution, but hesitate to share their knowledge / answer questions, regardless of it's gravity, but the thing which is appreciable is your attitude, which made you respond to questions like these.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-setup-kafka-output-in-filebeat/67154/4 "2016-12-27T05:14:34Z")
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