# Is it possible to store logs for elastic search remotely? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 6, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-store-logs-for-elastic-search-remotely/147607 "2018-09-06T15:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fcukinyahoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/74df32/32.png) [@fcukinyahoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fcukinyahoo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-store-logs-for-elastic-search-remotely/147607/1 "2018-09-06T15:50:28Z")
The goal is to have ELK stack running on cloud, however storing log data remotely in our data center. We would like to go with this approach because we have a lot of data and storage is expensive on ELK in cloud. So we would like to ship all our logs to some storage drive in our data center, and have ELK stack in cloud access that data to graph, search, and analyze. Maybe have the data accessible over network? How is this possible? What is the best approach? Thank you in advance, ---
**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:** [September 6, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-store-logs-for-elastic-search-remotely/147607/2 "2018-09-06T23:57:13Z")
Data needs to reside in Elasticsearch for Kibana to be able to read it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-store-logs-for-elastic-search-remotely/147607/3 "2018-09-20T23:57:14Z")
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