# Use filebeat to send different logs in different server
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-filebeat-to-send-different-logs-in-different-server/127103
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [April 6, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-filebeat-to-send-different-logs-in-different-server/127103 "2018-04-06T13:37:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@adg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adg)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-filebeat-to-send-different-logs-in-different-server/127103/1 "2018-04-06T13:37:24Z")
in one of my server having filebeat configure currently it send server.log ,localhost.log and localhost-access.log logs to centralized log server via
/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml
> output:
> logstash : [ceterlizedIP:port]
> index : filebeat
> filebeat :
> config\_dir : /etc/filebeat/conf.d
now i have to send localhost-access.log logs to some other server (other then where localhost.log and server.log goes )
so how would i distinguish in filebeat.yml so it have two logstash output and
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-filebeat-to-send-different-logs-in-different-server/127103/2 "2018-04-06T13:50:52Z")
Filebeat only allows to send the data to one output at the time. Your options are:
- Use Logstash to route the events
- Use 2 Filebeat instances, one for each input. In this case make sure you use different data directories.
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### Author:  [@adg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adg)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-filebeat-to-send-different-logs-in-different-server/127103/3 "2018-04-06T14:09:24Z")
i will prefer to go option second , for useing 2 filebeat instance
but what is mean by different data directories.
does it mean
> config\_dir:
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-filebeat-to-send-different-logs-in-different-server/127103/4 "2018-04-09T07:32:03Z")
Here is the data path I was referring to: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/configuration-path.html#\_literal\_data\_literal](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/configuration-path.html#_literal_data_literal)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2018, 7:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-filebeat-to-send-different-logs-in-different-server/127103/5 "2018-05-07T07:32:18Z")
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