# Http monitoring support on l4/l7 switches

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-monitoring-support-on-l4-l7-switches/28030>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** packetbeat\
**Created:** [August 25, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-monitoring-support-on-l4-l7-switches/28030 "2015-08-25T15:40:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![elric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@elric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elric)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-monitoring-support-on-l4-l7-switches/28030/1 "2015-08-25T15:40:00Z")

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Hi there,  
I've been using the packetbeat to monitoring rest api server using http protocol.  
When I call rest api directly, the packetbeat doing well. but it does not working with l7 switch.

I heard about that it works on application layer only. Is that a related to this issue?  
Is there any way to use packetbeat with l4/l7 switches?

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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 5, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-monitoring-support-on-l4-l7-switches/28030/2 "2017-07-05T21:58:53Z")

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