# ELK & APIs calls

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-apis-calls/317116>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 20, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-apis-calls/317116 "2022-10-20T13:19:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![noshell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9de053/32.png) [@noshell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/noshell)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-apis-calls/317116/1 "2022-10-20T13:19:29Z")

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Hello,

I have a design / architecture question. In a project i wish you to implement REST APIs with custom dashboards but i want to segreagte network flows.  
I would like to know if i used a distributed archietcture where kibana and logstash are two diffrent servers, the APIs call are only initiated from logtash to the destination server and not kibana.  
Is there a case when APIs call are generated by kibana directly to the server without going throught logstash ?

Thank you for your help.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-apis-calls/317116/2 "2022-10-20T13:23:45Z")

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Kibana talks directly to Elasticsearch, it never goes through Logstash.

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**Author:** ![Rios](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rios/32/95745_2.png) [@Rios](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rios)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-apis-calls/317116/3 "2022-10-20T13:25:52Z")

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FB/EA can send data to ES or LS, and module dashboards to Kibana to import in ES.  
LS send data to ES.  
Kibana see only ES.

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**Author:** ![noshell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9de053/32.png) [@noshell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/noshell)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-apis-calls/317116/4 "2022-10-27T06:28:46Z")

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Thank you for your answer

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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:** [November 24, 2022, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-apis-calls/317116/5 "2022-11-24T06:29:45Z")

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