title: Can Filebeat use multiple config files?
body: <p>I have several applications running on a single server. I'd like to use filebeat to ship the logs of each of them to logstash. However, for the sake of configuration management, I'd like to be able to add configuration to filebeat for each app separately.</p>
  
  <p>Logstash reads its config from a <code>conf.d</code> directory. It's my understanding that one can add files there and they get combined when logstash loads them. Is there any similar feature for filebeat? Or am I stuck with maintaining a single <code>filebeat.yml</code> file per server?</p>
  
  <p>I'm running both filebeat and logstash as services on CentOS 7, using the yum/rpm packages from <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/1.3/setup-repositories.html" rel="noreferrer">elastic's repositories</a>. Filebeat is version 1.3.1 and logstash is version 2.4.0.</p>