# Hosting Logstash tips and tricks **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [November 9, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hosting-logstash-tips-and-tricks/107026 "2017-11-09T10:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pj.vandendriessche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@pj.vandendriessche](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pj.vandendriessche)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hosting-logstash-tips-and-tricks/107026/1 "2017-11-09T10:56:47Z")
Totally new to the ELK stack and a beginner on programming level speaking here. I currently have a Django Python application running on Heroku. It works with Papertrail logging. Papertrail receives the logs through a so-called "drains"-setup from Heroku. I tried to use this "drains"-setup to feed directly logs into Elastic Cloud. The logs arrive but I get this kind of warning: ``` [WARN][org.elasticsearch.deprecation.rest.RestController] Content type detection for rest requests is deprecated. Specify the content type using the [Content-Type] header. ``` Therefore, I was looking into hosting Logstash so I have the right format (?) in which the logs enter the Elasticsearch environment. Some questions therefore: - Is this the right approach? Using Logstash to get a 'clean' the format or do I have some other problem - What would be the best practices to host Logstash? AWS, GCP? - How would I do that? Any good tutorials - not super familiar with launching stuff on AWS and GCP. - would it be easier to just go for the heroku add-on? Thanks, Pieter-Jan ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hosting-logstash-tips-and-tricks/107026/2 "2017-12-07T10:56:58Z")
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