# Why filebeat hug GOLANG and give up Java?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-filebeat-hug-golang-and-give-up-java/127888>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 13, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-filebeat-hug-golang-and-give-up-java/127888 "2018-04-13T02:45:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![jackyshen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@jackyshen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jackyshen)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-filebeat-hug-golang-and-give-up-java/127888/1 "2018-04-13T02:45:18Z")

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We know that the logstash-forwarder ,the predecessor of filebeat , has two versions, one is Java and another is GOLANG , however currently the filebeat just has one GOLANG version, may I know the reasons why filebeat hug GOLANG and give up Java?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-filebeat-hug-golang-and-give-up-java/127888/2 "2018-04-13T11:41:09Z")

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> [@jackyshen](#):
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> We know that the logstash-forwarder ,the predecessor of filebeat , has two versions, one is Java and another is GOLANG

As far and I know, [logstash-forwarder](https://github.com/elastic/logstash-forwarder) was always just implemented in GOLANG.

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**Author:** ![jackyshen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@jackyshen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jackyshen)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-filebeat-hug-golang-and-give-up-java/127888/3 "2018-04-16T01:53:18Z")

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Ok, it seems the logstash-forwarder-java([https://github.com/didfet/logstash-forwarder-java](https://github.com/didfet/logstash-forwarder-java)) is not official version .

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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:** [May 14, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-filebeat-hug-golang-and-give-up-java/127888/4 "2018-05-14T01:53:24Z")

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