# Logstash output for filebeat xpack monitoring
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-for-filebeat-xpack-monitoring/153471
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 22, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-for-filebeat-xpack-monitoring/153471 "2018-10-22T19:32:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jgrevich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jgrevich)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-for-filebeat-xpack-monitoring/153471/1 "2018-10-22T19:32:21Z")
Is it possible to configure filebeat to send its monitoring metrics through logstash rather than have filebeat access the ES cluster directly?
I can't seem to figure out how to do this and the documentation seems to suggest that it needs to connect directly to the ES cluster.
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-for-filebeat-xpack-monitoring/153471/2 "2018-10-23T10:49:18Z")
Right now filebeat monitoring only publishes to Elasticsearch. There is no data path via Logstash. For isolation/proxy purposes one can also setup nginx.
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### Author:  [@jgrevich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jgrevich)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-for-filebeat-xpack-monitoring/153471/3 "2018-10-26T19:24:58Z")
Thanks Steffens. Let me make sure I understand what you're suggesting. Are you saying that a workaround is to use nginx or some form of a proxy on the logstash instance(s) to forward the requests to the ES cluster?
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-for-filebeat-xpack-monitoring/153471/4 "2018-10-31T09:57:17Z")
Yes.
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### Author:  [@jgrevich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jgrevich)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-for-filebeat-xpack-monitoring/153471/5 "2018-10-31T10:39:48Z")
Got it, thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-for-filebeat-xpack-monitoring/153471/6 "2018-11-28T10:39:53Z")
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