# Is there any way to "pull" logs into logstash, rather than "pushing" them from Filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-pull-logs-into-logstash-rather-than-pushing-them-from-filebeat/132371>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 17, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-pull-logs-into-logstash-rather-than-pushing-them-from-filebeat/132371 "2018-05-17T15:40:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jarnold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jarnold](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jarnold)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-pull-logs-into-logstash-rather-than-pushing-them-from-filebeat/132371/1 "2018-05-17T15:40:52Z")

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I've been tasked with implementing an Elastic stack cluster to deal with monitoring for some server logs - Some of the servers we need to monitor are based on an external network.

Due to our security policy, I can't make logstash internet-facing, even with encryption enabled. Due to our network topology, our machines can see the external network, but nothing on this network can see our network.

Is there any way I can "pull" the files from this external network? Or is this not supported by logstash?

Thanks in advance,  
Jack

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**Author:** ![tdk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@tdk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tdk)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-pull-logs-into-logstash-rather-than-pushing-them-from-filebeat/132371/2 "2018-06-11T13:35:58Z")

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Hello,

I am looking for a way to do this as well. For similar reasons.  
The closest I have is to rsync logs and then upload them from another network.  
Seems suboptimal and fragile. Any other suggestions would be amazing

Regards.

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**Author:** ![jarnold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jarnold](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jarnold)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-pull-logs-into-logstash-rather-than-pushing-them-from-filebeat/132371/3 "2018-06-12T09:05:24Z")

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I worked around this by creating a VPN link, that was fairly straightforward to accomplish.

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**Author:** ![tdk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@tdk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tdk)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-pull-logs-into-logstash-rather-than-pushing-them-from-filebeat/132371/4 "2018-06-12T09:21:59Z")

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Thanks for the reply. So little information about this topic.  
Had a idea of doing temporary reverse tunnels with file beat configured to drop files on local host.  
A more stable vpn may be a better option.

Regards.

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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 10, 2018, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-pull-logs-into-logstash-rather-than-pushing-them-from-filebeat/132371/5 "2018-07-10T09:22:00Z")

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