# Jenkins monitoring using Elastic stack
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jenkins-monitoring-using-elastic-stack/95679
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [August 3, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jenkins-monitoring-using-elastic-stack/95679 "2017-08-03T09:25:26Z")
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### Author:  [@madou23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/madou23)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jenkins-monitoring-using-elastic-stack/95679/1 "2017-08-03T09:25:26Z")
Hi all,
I'm trying to monitor Jenkins using Elastic stack but don't know which Beat to choose Filebeat or Metricbeat ?
I'm thinking to use Filebeat and Logstash to collect and filter these log files:
```
/var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log
/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/*/builds/*/log
```
But I'm not sure it is the right idea or not ?
Also, referring to this post [Jenkins Monitoring using ELK](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jenkins-monitoring-using-elk/70510/5?u=madou23)
I can monitor Jenkins by creating a new module for it, is there any hint to start with ?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2017, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jenkins-monitoring-using-elastic-stack/95679/2 "2017-08-03T09:27:37Z")
Both would make sense. Filebeat for the logs and metricbeat for host metrics!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jenkins-monitoring-using-elastic-stack/95679/3 "2017-08-24T09:25:51Z")
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