# Is there any way to run logstash from the kibana UI **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [November 30, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-run-logstash-from-the-kibana-ui/257058 "2020-11-30T12:03:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aryaman\_Gupta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aryaman_gupta/32/79927_2.png) [@Aryaman\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aryaman_Gupta)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-run-logstash-from-the-kibana-ui/257058/1 "2020-11-30T12:03:09Z")
I want to know if it is possible to run log-stash from the kibana UI instead of going to terminal and then providing the config file and running it. Can we do all these steps like, 1 writing config file for log-stash 2 Selecting the log file 3 running the logstash and moving the parsed log to Elasticsearch for indexing. ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-run-logstash-from-the-kibana-ui/257058/2 "2020-11-30T13:26:32Z")
No. Logstash is a program on it's own, Kibana has no direct connection to it and it won't because it would be a security risk. You can reindex stuff that is already in Elasticsearch by using the reindex API in Kibana, but that's it. ---
**Author:** ![Aryaman\_Gupta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aryaman_gupta/32/79927_2.png) [@Aryaman\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aryaman_Gupta)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-run-logstash-from-the-kibana-ui/257058/3 "2020-12-02T09:54:57Z")
All right, thanks for the answer. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-way-to-run-logstash-from-the-kibana-ui/257058/4 "2020-12-30T09:55:09Z")
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