diff --git a/filebeat/README.md b/filebeat/README.md
index ffc5e40ad..2870c41b5 100644
--- a/filebeat/README.md
+++ b/filebeat/README.md
@@ -159,6 +159,14 @@ namespace which gives it access to the host loopback device, services listening
 on localhost, could be used to snoop on network activity of other pods on the
 same node.
 
+### How do I get multiple beats agents working with hostNetworking enabled?
+
+The default http port for multiple beats agents may be on the same port, for 
+example, Filebeats and Metricbeats both default to 5066. When `hostNetworking` 
+is enabled this will cause collisions when standing up the http server. The work 
+around for this is to set `http.port` in the config file for one of the beats agent
+to use a different port.
+
 ### How to change readinessProbe for outputs which don't support testing
 
 Some [Filebeat outputs][] like [Kafka output][] don't support testing using
diff --git a/metricbeat/README.md b/metricbeat/README.md
index ff36a9dc4..48db4b806 100644
--- a/metricbeat/README.md
+++ b/metricbeat/README.md
@@ -206,6 +206,14 @@ namespace which gives it access to the host loopback device, services listening
 on localhost, could be used to snoop on network activity of other pods on the
 same node.
 
+### How do I get multiple beats agents working with hostNetworking enabled?
+
+The default http port for multiple beats agents may be on the same port, for 
+example, Filebeats and Metricbeats both default to 5066. When `hostNetworking` 
+is enabled this will cause collisions when standing up the http server. The work 
+around for this is to set `http.port` in the config file for one of the beats agent
+to use a different port.
+
 
 ## Contributing