# Installation and configuration deployment of beats in large scale

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-and-configuration-deployment-of-beats-in-large-scale/220035>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-and-configuration-deployment-of-beats-in-large-scale/220035 "2020-02-19T17:19:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-and-configuration-deployment-of-beats-in-large-scale/220035/1 "2020-02-19T17:19:49Z")

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What is the best practice to install and configuration deployment of beats when there is a huge amount of servers/VMs say around 500. Whether Ansible configuration management will suffice?

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-and-configuration-deployment-of-beats-in-large-scale/220035/2 "2020-02-19T17:55:09Z")

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Yes, you'd want to use some sort of a configuration management system like Ansible.

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**Author:** ![Julien\_MAILLERET](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/julien_mailleret/32/45074_2.png) [@Julien\_MAILLERET](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Julien_MAILLERET)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-and-configuration-deployment-of-beats-in-large-scale/220035/3 "2020-03-06T15:15:12Z")

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Hi @mruthyu,  
You can use [https://github.com/elastic/ansible-beats/](https://github.com/elastic/ansible-beats/) to deploy Filebeat and Metribeat via Ansible on Linux servers.

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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-and-configuration-deployment-of-beats-in-large-scale/220035/4 "2020-03-12T09:21:28Z")

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Thank you. Will check.

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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:** [April 9, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-and-configuration-deployment-of-beats-in-large-scale/220035/5 "2020-04-09T09:21:32Z")

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