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 # Filebeat
 
 Filebeat is an open source file harvester, mostly used to fetch logs files and feed them into logstash.
-Together with the libbeat lumerjack output is a replacement for [logstash-forwarder](https://github.com/elastic/logstash-forwarder).
+Together with the libbeat lumberjack output is a replacement for [logstash-forwarder](https://github.com/elastic/logstash-forwarder).