# ELK for app logs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-for-app-logs/23236
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 14, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-for-app-logs/23236 "2015-04-14T17:25:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@TB1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TB1)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-for-app-logs/23236/1 "2015-04-14T17:25:54Z")
Hi Experts,
i'm trying to see how i can use ELK for my application logs,MVC Web App
running on windows.
From my understanding of documentation, only way looks like have the MVC
App write logs to local file and then use logstash to forward the logs to
ES.
is this the recommended approach? pls point me in the right direction
TIA,
TB
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-for-app-logs/23236/2 "2015-04-14T22:27:46Z")
You can do it this way, I have also seen logging via TCP to Logstash.
Lots of people also use nxlog on Windows, which then sends to LS for
further processing.
I'd also suggest you have a look at the
[Redirecting to Google Groups](https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/logstash-users) as there
are a number of old threads with info on ELK with Windows.
On 15 April 2015 at 03:25, TB [txindfun@gmail.com](mailto:txindfun@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi Experts,
> i'm trying to see how i can use ELK for my application logs,MVC Web App
> running on windows.
> From my understanding of documentation, only way looks like have the MVC
> App write logs to local file and then use logstash to forward the logs to
> ES.
> is this the recommended approach? pls point me in the right direction
>
> TIA,
> TB
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-for-app-logs/23236/3 "2017-07-06T00:19:49Z")