# Logstash-forwarder listening in a port

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-listening-in-a-port/35886>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 30, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-listening-in-a-port/35886 "2015-11-30T11:17:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![billy6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@billy6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/billy6)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-listening-in-a-port/35886/1 "2015-11-30T11:17:47Z")

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Is possible to have logstash forwarder listening in a port?  
I have changed logstash from my client server to logstash forwarder, because it is supossed to have a minimum package loss ratio and it's more lightweight.  
I would like logstash forwarder to be listening to an UDP port, but in all the examples and docummentation I see it always appears with syslog.  
This is the idea I want to implement\>

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```
   | logstash forwarder | | redis |
   | (it listens UDP) | | logstash |  
                                                        | ES |
                                                        ----------------
```

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-listening-in-a-port/35886/2 "2015-11-30T11:44:40Z")

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Logstash Forwarder and FileBeat, which is replacing Logstash Forwarder, only accepts files as input. Logstash does however have TCP and UDP input plugins.

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**Author:** ![billy6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@billy6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/billy6)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-listening-in-a-port/35886/3 "2015-11-30T11:47:22Z")

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Thank you @Christian_Dahlqvist My problem is with memory consumption for that reason I wanted to changed logstash to a logstash shipper. Is there any logstash shipper that could allow me to obtain the messages that cames from one port?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-listening-in-a-port/35886/4 "2015-11-30T21:09:14Z")

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Not currently, no.

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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 6, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-listening-in-a-port/35886/5 "2017-07-06T05:20:42Z")

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