# ELK Stack Confusion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-confusion/88920>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 10, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-confusion/88920 "2017-06-10T15:38:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mvelez83](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@mvelez83](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvelez83)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-confusion/88920/1 "2017-06-10T15:38:22Z")

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Hello,

I'm VERY new to ELK and I wanted to confirm the order in which I need to deploy ELK.

So, I believe the main components are of course Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana. I also wanted to add a buffer layer using Redis and here is where I get a little confused. Does the buffer layer come after file beat or after logstash? For example:

Option 1: File Beat \> Redis \> Logstash \> Elasticsearch \> Kibana

Option 2: File Beat \> Logstash \> Redis \> Elasticsearch \> Kibana

Option 3: File Beat \> Logstash \> Redis \> Logstash \> Elasticsearch \> Kibana

I've seen multiple options and method and I know it depends on your environment but I just wanted to get a flow going and want to know which method would be the most basic one and grow from there. I was thinking option one and add a 3 host layer for Redis, Logstash and Elasticsearch one I got it working. Thank you for any and all help and suggestions.

Thank You

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-confusion/88920/2 "2017-06-11T06:11:17Z")

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Beat \> Redis \> LS \> ES usually.

There's not always a reason to have LS between beats and redis given it can write natively.

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**Author:** ![mvelez83](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@mvelez83](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mvelez83)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-confusion/88920/3 "2017-06-11T19:02:58Z")

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Thank you very much for the update I really appreciate it!

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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:** [July 9, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-confusion/88920/4 "2017-07-09T19:03:11Z")

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