# SocketBeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/socketbeat/1519>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [May 28, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/socketbeat/1519 "2015-05-28T21:32:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![johann8384](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johann8384/32/440_2.png) [@johann8384](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johann8384)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/socketbeat/1519/1 "2015-05-28T21:32:24Z")

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I would like to accept strings on local socket or TCP socket, GROK them and add a few fields before shipping them off.

I started [here](https://github.com/johann8384/socketbeat), I'm really new to Golang and haven't incorporated [libbeat](https://github.com/elastic/libbeat) or any meaninful output yet.

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**Author:** ![elvarb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elvarb/32/44840_2.png) [@elvarb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elvarb)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/socketbeat/1519/2 "2015-06-15T14:20:41Z")

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How is that different from just the standard Logstash TCP 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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/socketbeat/1519/3 "2017-07-05T21:59:11Z")

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