# Install filebeat locally to get access to a server?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-locally-to-get-access-to-a-server/140498>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 18, 2018, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-locally-to-get-access-to-a-server/140498 "2018-07-18T09:39:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![saisimo02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saisimo02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saisimo02)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-locally-to-get-access-to-a-server/140498/1 "2018-07-18T09:39:10Z")

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Hello,  
I recently started learning ELK and I succeed to parse my XML files locally. But now I would like to have access to my server to get access to all of my XML files (upgrade every 30 seconds)  
I have the ip-address of my server and my question is: I should install Filebeat locally and configure my filebeat.yml to get access to the server or I should install the Filebeat in the server and then indicate my locally address?

Thanks for your help 🙂

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-locally-to-get-access-to-a-server/140498/2 "2018-07-18T22:45:15Z")

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That is a question of style, but most people install filebeat on the edge, which is to say on the local computer.

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**Author:** ![saisimo02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saisimo02](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saisimo02)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-locally-to-get-access-to-a-server/140498/3 "2018-07-19T08:04:41Z")

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Thank you Andrew, but what should I do to get access to my server ?  
something like that ?  
paths:  
- root@xx.xx.xx.xx./test/\*.xml

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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:** [August 16, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-locally-to-get-access-to-a-server/140498/4 "2018-08-16T08:04:45Z")

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