# Logstash Monitoring metrics receiver
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-monitoring-metrics-receiver/138070
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 1, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-monitoring-metrics-receiver/138070 "2018-07-01T03:58:36Z")
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### Author:  [@eperry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eperry)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-monitoring-metrics-receiver/138070/1 "2018-07-01T03:58:36Z")
I have a very complex environment spanning 8 different data centers and lots of fire walls
It appears the xpack.monitoring only has a HTTP output option ( I need to use Kafka) to stay with the current architecture and avoid troubling shooting firewalls for the next 2 weeks
So I was wondering if I can have the xpack.monitoring.url be another logstash http input on localhost so I could continue to use kafka
Right now my architecture is:
logstash output -\> kafka \> logstash indexer -\> elasticsearch
I was wondering if we could shoe-horn the metrics in to this data flow.
Logstash
|-xpack.monitoring.url = localhost:92XX
|- lostash input http listen on localhost:92xx
|- ----------------------(filter???)
|-logstash output kafka
|
|KAFKA TOPIC XXXX
|
| Logstash read topic and write to .monitor-logstash
Any idea's or is it just as simple as put up a http listener and writing it to the write index?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-monitoring-metrics-receiver/138070/2 "2018-07-29T03:58:41Z")
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