# Beats vs Kinesis Firehose for ELK Stack
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-vs-kinesis-firehose-for-elk-stack/171800
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [March 11, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-vs-kinesis-firehose-for-elk-stack/171800 "2019-03-11T15:58:33Z")
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### Author:  [@lar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lar)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-vs-kinesis-firehose-for-elk-stack/171800/1 "2019-03-11T15:58:33Z")
I am planning to use Kinesis Firehose for both Windows and Linux instances to send logs to Logstash. Has anyone used this approach ? How will the data be collected from the Instances and sent over to Logstash ? What is the elastic recommend approach ?
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### Author:  [@lar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lar)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-vs-kinesis-firehose-for-elk-stack/171800/2 "2019-03-12T10:11:40Z")
Could someone advise here ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-vs-kinesis-firehose-for-elk-stack/171800/3 "2019-04-09T12:11:51Z")
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