# Dashboards through logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-through-logstash/247207>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-through-logstash/247207 "2020-09-02T09:55:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![headtea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/headtea/32/24271_2.png) [@headtea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/headtea)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-through-logstash/247207/1 "2020-09-02T09:55:43Z")

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I'm directing my beats (auditbeat & filebeat) output directly to logstash. In both beats' configs I have dashboards enabled.

The problem is that the dashboards data doesn't seem to end up in kibana if I output to logstash. It only works if I output beats data to Elasticsearch.

I also want to use some modules like the "apache logs" but it seems like it also [requires filebeat to output to elasticsearch](https://i.imgur.com/qjbED1r.png)

Is there a way around this? Is it possible to send beats to logstash and still have it deliver dashboards data? [If it helps this is my logstash output](https://pastebin.com/XE4t8y3u)

Thanks ahead!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-through-logstash/247207/2 "2020-09-30T09:55:53Z")

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