# Multiple files from filebeat

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-filebeat/67965
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 4, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-filebeat/67965 "2016-12-04T23:30:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![bob-bza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9f8e36/32.png) [@bob-bza](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bob-bza)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-filebeat/67965/1 "2016-12-04T23:30:26Z")

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i have multiple files i was trying to index all those with different index's , i was wondering how can i manage those.  
filebeat i was forwarding to logstash and then output to elastic search.  
Example:  
/var/log/file1  
/var/log/file2  
.  
.  
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/var/log/filen

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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 4, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-filebeat/67965/2 "2016-12-04T23:33:12Z")

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Please don't cross post 🙂

> [@Multiple files from beats to logstash](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-beats-to-logstash/67966):
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> i have multiple files i was trying to index all those with different index's , i was wondering how can i manage those. filebeat i was forwarding to logstash and then output to elastic search. Example: /var/log/file1 /var/log/file2 . . . /var/log/filen

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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 4, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-filebeat/67965/3 "2016-12-04T23:33:15Z")

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