# Module with custom input?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-with-custom-input/231097
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** beats-module, filebeat
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-with-custom-input/231097 "2020-05-05T07:55:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@hazcod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hazcod)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-with-custom-input/231097/1 "2020-05-05T07:55:26Z")
Hi,
Is there a method to use module parsing with your own custom input declaration?
e.g.
```
- module: checkpoint
access:
input:
- type: syslog
protocol.tcp:
host: "0.0.0.0:8001"
tls:
certificate: foo
key: bar
```
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### Author:  [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-with-custom-input/231097/2 "2020-05-05T11:30:59Z")
Hi @hazcod!
It seems that no. [Inputs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/configuration-filebeat-options.html#configuration-filebeat-options) are meant to replace `modules` where modules are not enough to support a case.
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### Author:  [@hazcod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hazcod)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-with-custom-input/231097/3 "2020-05-05T11:31:56Z")
Hi @ChrsMark, that's a bummer... I would want to use mutual TLS for syslog connections, but no modules support that. Can I utilise the module parsing on its own?
In my case I want to use the CheckPoint-\>ECS parser, but with mutual TLS input.
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### Author:  [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-with-custom-input/231097/4 "2020-05-05T11:41:57Z")
So [`checkpoint`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/filebeat-module-checkpoint.html) module supports syslog or file as inputs. Sample config: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/x-pack/filebeat/module/checkpoint/\_meta/config.yml](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/x-pack/filebeat/module/checkpoint/_meta/config.yml)
The question is if you can specify TLS settings in order to collect securely? From the documentation it seems that it is not supported. I would suggest you open a Github issue for this requesting this enhancement (if it is already supported and we missed that then it should be documented). What do you think?
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### Author:  [@hazcod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hazcod)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-with-custom-input/231097/5 "2020-05-05T11:43:03Z")
That's what I was afraid for.. I've opened up a PR for it last week: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/18116](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/18116)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-with-custom-input/231097/6 "2020-06-02T11:43:08Z")
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