# Webhdfs output in Filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/webhdfs-output-in-filebeat/109146>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 26, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/webhdfs-output-in-filebeat/109146 "2017-11-26T19:16:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tivvit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tivvit/32/24685_2.png) [@tivvit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tivvit)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/webhdfs-output-in-filebeat/109146/1 "2017-11-26T19:16:09Z")

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Hi,

are you open to the idea of webhdfs output for Filebeat?  
Something like [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-webhdfs.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-webhdfs.html) for Logstash.

I am willing to work on that but I want to know if it will be merged.  
I see that Filebeat has only ELK stack outputs so far and Logstash has many others, but we would love to use Filebeat because of its performace.

Vit

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/webhdfs-output-in-filebeat/109146/2 "2017-11-27T00:18:37Z")

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Hi @tivvit

Best have a look at the conversation in this thread and the last comment: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/581#issuecomment-345084702](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/581#issuecomment-345084702) The same applies to webhdfs.

For your setup I would suggest to have LS in the middle to forward events to wbhdfs and have Filebeat on the edge nodes sending data to LS if that is an option.

BTW: There is also always the path with the plugin but it's a bit more complex.

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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:** [December 25, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/webhdfs-output-in-filebeat/109146/3 "2017-12-25T00:18:59Z")

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