# How to track wmtp and bmtp

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-track-wmtp-and-bmtp/97270>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 16, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-track-wmtp-and-bmtp/97270 "2017-08-16T13:44:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![rfokkenrood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@rfokkenrood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rfokkenrood)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-track-wmtp-and-bmtp/97270/1 "2017-08-16T13:44:54Z")

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Pretty much what it says, how can i get new events in these logs pushed to logstash?  
So far the only solution i've seen is to run logstash on every machine so i can use the last command, but that would mean introducing an extra instance of logstash for every server, on top of our centralised logstash for parsing. Has anyone found a more elegant solution for this? is the filebeat the right beat to read these log files?

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-track-wmtp-and-bmtp/97270/2 "2017-08-17T21:12:31Z")

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Filebeat neither supports binary files, nor executing external commands.

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**Author:** ![rfokkenrood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@rfokkenrood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rfokkenrood)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-track-wmtp-and-bmtp/97270/3 "2017-08-18T07:28:31Z")

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Do you know of another way to push these logs to our central logstash instance?

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-track-wmtp-and-bmtp/97270/4 "2017-08-18T12:42:25Z")

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No idea about other solutions.

Maybe you want to have a look at auditbeat (which is currently in development).

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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:** [September 15, 2017, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-track-wmtp-and-bmtp/97270/5 "2017-09-15T12:42:34Z")

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