Connect Logstash to ingest node?

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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Hi,

Do I have to leave node.ingest to the default true when I want to use Logstash to send events to this node? Or do I need it only if I want to send data directly to Elasticsearch and have it processed with pipelines? Do I have any drawbacks from leaving ingest to true when I only use Logstash to send new data to Elasticsearch?

Cheers,
Thomas

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Hi,

reading the Ingest node page, looks like you don't have to leave it to true when you're using Logstash. It seems to be for pre-processing documents the way Logstash does but by indicating the way you want to process your events directly into the elasticsearch node.

I hope this will help you.

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This is what I got from reading the page.

I just wanted to be sure because I'm not completely sure whether this is used for all sorts of ingesting or just for those with pre-processing pipelines.

Since we both came to the same conclusion I'm quite sure this is right.

Thanks.

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I just did a short test with the alpha3 of version 5 and it seems to work.

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Ok thank you for the test :slight_smile: