# Use preliminary 6.4.0 Filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-preliminary-6-4-0-filebeat/145550>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 22, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-preliminary-6-4-0-filebeat/145550 "2018-08-22T12:32:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jesusgn90](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jesusgn90/32/26998_2.png) [@jesusgn90](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jesusgn90)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-preliminary-6-4-0-filebeat/145550/1 "2018-08-22T12:32:26Z")

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Hello team! Recently I've been testing our Kibana plugin in order to adapt it to future 6.4.0 version.

Currently I'm using Kibana dev from 6.4 branch, and launching an ES instance with ES snapshot command from Kibana's package.json scripts, also I'm using Logstash 6.3.2, all it's okay but my question is:

How to launch a Filebeat instance or compile it from sources to test 6.4.0 ?

Regards,  
Jesús

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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:** [August 22, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-preliminary-6-4-0-filebeat/145550/2 "2018-08-22T13:27:46Z")

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I think its easier to use our snapshots

[https://snapshots.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.4.0-SNAPSHOT-darwin-x86\_64.tar.gz](https://snapshots.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.4.0-SNAPSHOT-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz)  
[https://snapshots.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.4.0-SNAPSHOT-linux-x86\_64.tar.gz](https://snapshots.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.4.0-SNAPSHOT-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)

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**Author:** ![jesusgn90](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jesusgn90/32/26998_2.png) [@jesusgn90](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jesusgn90)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-preliminary-6-4-0-filebeat/145550/3 "2018-08-22T13:40:20Z")

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Yep, I've already doing it with Elasticsearch, but how to use Filebeat snapshots?

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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:** [August 22, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-preliminary-6-4-0-filebeat/145550/4 "2018-08-22T14:20:52Z")

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@jesusgn90 I am not sure I understand, you can download the binaries that I have linked above and use a custom configuration for filebeat and with some fixture with your log data?

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**Author:** ![jesusgn90](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jesusgn90/32/26998_2.png) [@jesusgn90](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jesusgn90)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-preliminary-6-4-0-filebeat/145550/5 "2018-08-22T14:44:56Z")

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Yeah @pierhugues hahaha I was confused, it's okay and thanks so much for your support!

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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:** [September 19, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-preliminary-6-4-0-filebeat/145550/6 "2018-09-19T14:45:01Z")

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