# Connect logstash, elasticsearch, kibana and filebeats
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-logstash-elasticsearch-kibana-and-filebeats/84293
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 2, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-logstash-elasticsearch-kibana-and-filebeats/84293 "2017-05-02T16:29:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Bouali\_Inass](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bouali_Inass)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-logstash-elasticsearch-kibana-and-filebeats/84293/1 "2017-05-02T16:29:05Z")
Hello i'm new on elastic-stack i just installed logstash, elasticsearch, kibana and filebeats.
but i dont know what to do to connect them together and what should i do to test them with a log file
because i wanna read from a log file with logstash so i can visualised it in kibana (monitoring).
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### Author:  [@jkuang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jkuang)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-logstash-elasticsearch-kibana-and-filebeats/84293/2 "2017-05-02T17:53:07Z")
Take a look at the filebeat doc below. It has the instructions.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-getting-started.html)
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### Author:  [@Bouali\_Inass](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bouali_Inass)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-logstash-elasticsearch-kibana-and-filebeats/84293/3 "2017-05-04T09:02:49Z")
heey thanks for your reply.
now i wanna know how can i run the script mentioned in this page :
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-index-pattern.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-index-pattern.html)
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### Author:  [@jkuang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jkuang)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-logstash-elasticsearch-kibana-and-filebeats/84293/4 "2017-05-04T19:04:41Z")
^^ you can reference this doc for that
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/5.4/import-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/5.4/import-dashboards.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-logstash-elasticsearch-kibana-and-filebeats/84293/5 "2017-06-01T19:15:31Z")
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