# Pulling logs into logstash without running an agent on every vm

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-logs-into-logstash-without-running-an-agent-on-every-vm/42605>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 24, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-logs-into-logstash-without-running-an-agent-on-every-vm/42605 "2016-02-24T15:23:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![cshawler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@cshawler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cshawler)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-logs-into-logstash-without-running-an-agent-on-every-vm/42605/1 "2016-02-24T15:23:52Z")

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Is there away to pull logs into logstash without installing a shipper agent on every vm?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-logs-into-logstash-without-running-an-agent-on-every-vm/42605/2 "2016-02-24T18:01:02Z")

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Since this isn't a question about logstash-forwarder you may get better answers if you edit your post and change the category to Logstash.

Filebeat has a very small overhead and shouldn't be hard to install in each VM. Another option could be to store the logs in a shared file system (e.g. NFS) that a single Logstash process can access.

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**Author:** ![cshawler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@cshawler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cshawler)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-logs-into-logstash-without-running-an-agent-on-every-vm/42605/3 "2016-02-24T18:24:58Z")

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Thanks for the information and I have changed the category to Logstash!

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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:** [February 24, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-logs-into-logstash-without-running-an-agent-on-every-vm/42605/4 "2016-02-24T18:59:33Z")

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You can also use rsyslog to send it over TCP.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pulling-logs-into-logstash-without-running-an-agent-on-every-vm/42605/5 "2017-07-06T05:09:50Z")

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