# About the Logstash category
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-logstash-category/35
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [April 22, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-logstash-category/35 "2015-04-22T19:15:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-logstash-category/35/1 "2015-04-22T19:15:02Z")
## Centralize, transform & stash your data
Logstash is an open source server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources, transforms it, and then sends it to your favorite "stash."
⚠ PLEASE READ THIS SECTION IF IT'S YOUR FIRST POST
Some useful links:
- [logstash reference guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/index.html)
- [logstash troubleshooting](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/troubleshooting.html)
- [logstash plugins](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/index.html)
- [logstash source code](https://github.com/elastic/logstash)
- [other documentation](http://www.elastic.co/guide/)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-logstash-category/35/2 "2017-07-06T04:25:54Z")