Does a Logstash pipeline created in Kibana automatically start in Elastic cloud?

[cristianplaytreks (Cristian)]

Hi!

TL;DR How do I check the status of the Logstash pipeline in Elastic cloud?

I created a new deployment in Elastic cloud and then I created a new Logstash pipeline. However, I'm not sure how to check any information about the pipeline's status. Can't know if/what failed

I've checked this Getting Started webinar and checked other topic/blogs and they all run the Logstash locally in the terminal. However, I don't know if I can have that kind of control in Elastic cloud.

Please let me know if I'm missing something here,
Cheers!

[Christian_Dahlqvist]

Elastic Cloud does not host Logstash, so unless you have set up your own somewhere there is nothing to run the pipeline.

[cristianplaytreks (Cristian)]

@Christian_Dahlqvist okay that makes sense. I suspected that was the thing. Is it safe to say that basically in the Management section we "inform" Kibana that we want to monitor a Logstash pipeline, which we do in the Monitoring section?

[Christian_Dahlqvist]

You need to configure Logstash to send monitoring data to the cluster. You can as far as I know not enable this remotely through Kibana if that is what you are looking for.

You can also, assuming you have set up your Logstash correctly, manage pipelines through Kibana.