# Read filebeat configration from Http URL?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-filebeat-configration-from-http-url/160738>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-filebeat-configration-from-http-url/160738 "2018-12-13T13:14:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sahadevan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sahadevan/32/51734_2.png) [@sahadevan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahadevan)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-filebeat-configration-from-http-url/160738/1 "2018-12-13T13:14:59Z")

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Team, Is there any way to read filebeat configuration from an URL?

I want to start filebeat in windows from command line like this

" filebeat.exe --path.config='[http://XXXXXX/filebeat.yml](http://XXXXXX/filebeat.yml)' "

Please help me.

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-filebeat-configration-from-http-url/160738/2 "2018-12-14T17:01:43Z")

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This is not possible. What is your end goal here? Are you trying to centralize your filebeat configuration?

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**Author:** ![sahadevan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sahadevan/32/51734_2.png) [@sahadevan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sahadevan)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-filebeat-configration-from-http-url/160738/3 "2018-12-17T12:11:02Z")

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Yes. Basically, we want to have central location for all the config files so that we can change the config frequently and reload the filebeat instance.

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**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-filebeat-configration-from-http-url/160738/4 "2018-12-17T14:00:07Z")

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@sahadevan Its currently not possible today, what we suggest is to take a look at [Central Management](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-central-management.html) Which allow you to store a configuration in ES and fetch it from the beats.

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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:** [January 14, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-filebeat-configration-from-http-url/160738/5 "2019-01-14T14:00:43Z")

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