Q:

Can filebeat output to other application

The filebeat can be set to output to elasticsearch, logstash, file or console. Is it possible that filebeat can be input source for other application.

A:

The following are the output possibilities of filebeat as per the latest release:

Elastic
Logstash
Kafka
Redis
File
Console
Cloud

But filebeat is an open source agent. You can create a plugin of your own to suit the needs of your application. 

