# Filebeat or Logstash at the application servers?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-or-logstash-at-the-application-servers/105536
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem
**Created:** [October 27, 2017, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-or-logstash-at-the-application-servers/105536 "2017-10-27T08:21:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@GGA](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GGA)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2017, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-or-logstash-at-the-application-servers/105536/1 "2017-10-27T08:21:19Z")
Hi,
I'm thinking of implementing an ELK stack and I have a question about what to install on the application and apache servers to collect the logs.
Both Logstash and Filebeat can read from log files.
My initial idea was with Filebeat, since it is lighter than Logstash and would affect less to the production, but in the application server there is to collect of more than 200 files and I do not know if Filebeat can handle it.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2017, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-or-logstash-at-the-application-servers/105536/2 "2017-10-27T09:46:05Z")
> My initial idea was with Filebeat, since it is lighter than Logstash and would affect less to the production,
A minimal footprint and no Java requirement makes Filebeat a good candidate for collection of log files from edge servers.
> but in the application server there is to collect of more than 200 files and I do not know if Filebeat can handle it.
Sure it can.
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### Author:  [@GGA](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GGA)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-or-logstash-at-the-application-servers/105536/3 "2017-10-27T09:49:58Z")
Ok, thanks for the information and the quick response 😀.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-or-logstash-at-the-application-servers/105536/4 "2017-11-24T09:50:07Z")
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