# Install Filebeat on the client side
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [November 25, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113 "2017-11-25T19:12:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@joaoantoniopereira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joaoantoniopereira)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113/1 "2017-11-25T19:12:24Z")
Hi!
I am using the Log (server) -\> Filebeat (server) -\> Logstash (client) -\>Elasticsearch (client) pipeline.
Is it possible to install Filebeat on the client side to collect logs from the server?
If not is there a similar tool to filebeat that can achieve this?
Best regards,
João
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113/2 "2017-11-25T19:44:01Z")
Yes, it is.
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### Author:  [@joaoantoniopereira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joaoantoniopereira)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113/3 "2017-11-25T19:52:41Z")
Thanks for your reply.
Can you copy a link to filebeat page where it is specified how to set input as remote host? I cannot find it..
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113/4 "2017-11-25T20:11:10Z")
You cannot do that, it needs to be installed.
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### Author:  [@joaoantoniopereira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joaoantoniopereira)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113/5 "2017-11-25T20:19:20Z")
So it is not possible then..
Is there any other tool to achieve this?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113/6 "2017-11-25T20:20:29Z")
> [@joaoantoniopereira](#):
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> Is it possible to install Filebeat on the client side to collect logs from the server?
Sorry, I misunderstood that.
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113/7 "2017-11-28T13:44:54Z")
Your requirements are not very clear.
Filebeat is no server, but a log shipper. It's main purpose is sending files from a localmachine to Logstash or Elasticsearch. That is with filebeat you would have the log server write to local files and use filebeat to forward those files. The files on the log server would act as buffer in this case.
If you want to forward directly, why not directly forward to Logstash? Logstash supports syslog and many other protocols as input.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/install-filebeat-on-the-client-side/109113/8 "2017-12-26T13:44:55Z")
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