# Is it necessary to have elasticsearch ingest node?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-necessary-to-have-elasticsearch-ingest-node/252661>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 20, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-necessary-to-have-elasticsearch-ingest-node/252661 "2020-10-20T10:15:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-necessary-to-have-elasticsearch-ingest-node/252661/1 "2020-10-20T10:15:45Z")

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I am using elk stack and i want to ask that if i have logstash do i need another elasticsearch as ingest node ? becuase logstash can also preprocess the data

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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:** [October 20, 2020, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-necessary-to-have-elasticsearch-ingest-node/252661/2 "2020-10-20T11:25:59Z")

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If you are using logstash, you don't need to have an ingest pipeline in elasticsearch.

But I'm not sure I understood your question.

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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:** [November 17, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-necessary-to-have-elasticsearch-ingest-node/252661/3 "2020-11-17T11:26:12Z")

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