# Remote file beat data

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-file-beat-data/139707
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 12, 2018, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-file-beat-data/139707 "2018-07-12T09:22:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Chiranjeevi\_Medichar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@Chiranjeevi\_Medichar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chiranjeevi_Medichar)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2018, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-file-beat-data/139707/1 "2018-07-12T09:22:48Z")

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Pipeline\_id:main  
Plugin: \<LogStash::Inputs::Beats port=\>5044, host=\>"51.15.13.78", id=\>"0e8bb450290c27073038b98105c55144722f02f7064cb4fc49a8d0e1f7cfc3c4", enable\_metric=\>true, codec=\>\<LogStash::Codecs::Plain id=\>"plain\_87a15389-8a7a-479b-9629-42f4bd046845", enable\_metric=\>true, charset=\>"UTF-8"\>, ssl=\>false, ssl\_verify\_mode=\>"none", include\_codec\_tag=\>true, ssl\_handshake\_timeout=\>10000, tls\_min\_version=\>1, tls\_max\_version=\>1.2, cipher\_suites=\>["TLS\_ECDHE\_ECDSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_GCM\_SHA384", "TLS\_ECDHE\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_GCM\_SHA384", "TLS\_ECDHE\_ECDSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_GCM\_SHA256", "TLS\_ECDHE\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_GCM\_SHA256", "TLS\_ECDHE\_ECDSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_CBC\_SHA384", "TLS\_ECDHE\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_CBC\_SHA384", "TLS\_ECDHE\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_CBC\_SHA256", "TLS\_ECDHE\_ECDSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_CBC\_SHA256"], client\_inactivity\_timeout=\>60, executor\_threads=\>4\>  
Error: Cannot assign requested address  
Exception: Java::JavaNet::BindException

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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: [July 12, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-file-beat-data/139707/2 "2018-07-12T15:20:20Z")

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You have probably misunderstood the purpose of the `host` option. Unless you know what you're doing just remove that option from your beats input.

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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 9, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remote-file-beat-data/139707/3 "2018-08-09T15:20:23Z")

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