# Pushing logfiles to logstash

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pushing-logfiles-to-logstash/93637
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 18, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pushing-logfiles-to-logstash/93637 "2017-07-18T17:24:19Z")
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### Author: ![kg162](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kg162](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kg162)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pushing-logfiles-to-logstash/93637/1 "2017-07-18T17:24:19Z")

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To my understanding, filebeat finds logfiles from applications then sends to logstash. But is there a way to send logfiles directly to logstash or through filebeat because it seems to complicated with many different applications in this situation.

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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: [August 15, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pushing-logfiles-to-logstash/93637/2 "2017-08-15T17:24:21Z")

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