# Setting up Logstash and Beats for VM communication

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-logstash-and-beats-for-vm-communication/173828>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 25, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-logstash-and-beats-for-vm-communication/173828 "2019-03-25T20:56:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![LuJA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@LuJA](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LuJA)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-logstash-and-beats-for-vm-communication/173828/1 "2019-03-25T20:56:20Z")

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Newbie question: Is there a good guide available on how to pass the logs from a VM running an IPS, using filebeat, to ELK running on the host? Most of the guidance seems to be focussed on everything happening on the host machine, which glosses over a lot. I have the E and K running, but the fine tuning of L & B is proving difficult so any help would be appreciated.

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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 22, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-logstash-and-beats-for-vm-communication/173828/2 "2019-04-22T23:08:25Z")

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