# How logstash,elasticsearch and kibana communicate with each other?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communicate-with-each-other/201317>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 26, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communicate-with-each-other/201317 "2019-09-26T21:31:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![zeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/57b2e6/32.png) [@zeno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zeno)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communicate-with-each-other/201317/1 "2019-09-26T21:31:12Z")

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How ELK communicate with each other ? I have tried to search this but can't get any answer so please respond asap as i am researching on it

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communicate-with-each-other/201317/2 "2019-09-26T23:48:10Z")

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They are using http and rest api.

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**Author:** ![zeno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/57b2e6/32.png) [@zeno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zeno)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communicate-with-each-other/201317/3 "2019-09-27T07:54:30Z")

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is it the case with open source elk as well

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communicate-with-each-other/201317/4 "2019-09-27T08:28:11Z")

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Yes.

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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:** [October 25, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-logstash-elasticsearch-and-kibana-communicate-with-each-other/201317/5 "2019-10-25T08:28:26Z")

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