# Monitoring the SFTP server availability

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-the-sftp-server-availability/245287>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-the-sftp-server-availability/245287 "2020-08-17T16:45:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-the-sftp-server-availability/245287/1 "2020-08-17T16:45:19Z")

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Is it possible to monitor the health/availability of the SFTP server using elastic Stack?

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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:** [August 18, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-the-sftp-server-availability/245287/2 "2020-08-18T00:29:07Z")

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I don't think so, neither Logstash or Beats support SFTP (or SSH) as protocols. It might be worth creating a feature request against the Beats repo though, it seems like it's something Metricbeat should be able to do.

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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:** [September 15, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-the-sftp-server-availability/245287/3 "2020-09-15T00:29:19Z")

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