# New to beats development

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-beats-development/78425>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 13, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-beats-development/78425 "2017-03-13T23:40:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vinicius\_Carvalho](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vinicius_carvalho/32/770_2.png) [@Vinicius\_Carvalho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vinicius_Carvalho)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-beats-development/78425/1 "2017-03-13T23:40:51Z")

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Hi there, I'm checking beats for the first time. I've been a long time ES user in the past, it's amazing to see how much the ecosystem has evolved.

So, beats is amazing, and I would like to integrate into my java app, but instead of having another process running collocated, I was thinking on just sending the same event as described here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-event-structure.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-event-structure.html)

It seems that if I follow the same structure, I could benefit from some kibana dashboards I could derive from.

Does this make sense?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-beats-development/78425/2 "2017-03-15T22:51:44Z")

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That should work. But be aware that the current Dashboards we have are more for the modules we have, not for the common data. What is the data you are thinking of sending out?

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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:** [April 3, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-beats-development/78425/3 "2017-04-03T23:41:18Z")

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