# Monitor the presence of a file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-presence-of-a-file/87580
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-presence-of-a-file/87580 "2017-05-30T14:16:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@raazeev64](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raazeev64)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-presence-of-a-file/87580/1 "2017-05-30T14:16:46Z")
I have an assignment at hand where we need to migrate from Nagios to ELK. There was an option to monitor the presence of a file in Nagios. Can this be achieved in ELK also?. Metricbeat especially.
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### Author:  [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-presence-of-a-file/87580/2 "2017-05-30T16:04:14Z")
I don't think we have anything similar, how do you picture the feature? I would like to understand the problem you try to solve and the best solution for it.
Also please take a look to the new auditd module, as it may be useful to monitor changes to the file from the kernel audit system: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/master/metricbeat-metricset-audit-kernel.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/master/metricbeat-metricset-audit-kernel.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-the-presence-of-a-file/87580/3 "2017-06-27T16:04:19Z")
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