# Make Beats listen on localhost AND external IPs?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-beats-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259278>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat, metricbeat, winlogbeat\
**Created:** [December 21, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-beats-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259278 "2020-12-21T15:31:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![riahc3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d6d6ee/32.png) [@riahc3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/riahc3)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-beats-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259278/1 "2020-12-21T15:31:52Z")

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Hello

I want to able to make Beats all listen on the localhost AND on the external IP (or at least bind it to a IP)

All I see is creating a reverse proxy with Nginx and its something I rather avoid.

How can I do this?

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**Author:** ![rugenl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rugenl/32/12887_2.png) [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-beats-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259278/2 "2020-12-21T19:53:58Z")

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Listen address 0.0.0.0 should listen on all interfaces, I've done it for logstash and elasticsearch, but I can't find if I've done it for any beats. Otherwise, hosts should take a list [ip1:port1, ip2,port2]

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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:** [December 21, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-beats-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259278/3 "2020-12-21T22:01:43Z")

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The only beat that needs to listen on an IP is Filebeat, the rest don't work like that.

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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:** [January 19, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-beats-listen-on-localhost-and-external-ips/259278/4 "2021-01-19T00:01:52Z")

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