# ELK Installation order matters?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-installation-order-matters/211653>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-installation-order-matters/211653 "2019-12-12T13:19:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Incauto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/incauto/32/60149_2.png) [@Incauto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Incauto)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-installation-order-matters/211653/1 "2019-12-12T13:19:30Z")

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I have read in several places that the installation of the ELK stack should follow the order ES-\>Kibana-\>Logstash, is this still relevant?

I ask this because if I install ES, logstash and kibana in different machines the order shouldn't really matter, or am I wrong?

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**Author:** ![rameshkr1994](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rameshkr1994/32/59029_2.png) [@rameshkr1994](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rameshkr1994)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-installation-order-matters/211653/2 "2019-12-12T14:34:45Z")

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Hi .

> No

`You can install anywhere and any machine `

> right now i am using kibana from local machine install and logstash also but Elasticsearch is some where .

Thanks  
HadoopHelp

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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:** [January 9, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-installation-order-matters/211653/3 "2020-01-09T14:34:49Z")

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