# Kafka connect (elasticsearch connector) vs Logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005 "2017-01-09T22:24:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@venkat\_venkat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkat_venkat)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/1 "2017-01-09T22:24:27Z")
HI,
Thanks in advance!!
We are building a new pipe line, we want to use kafka connect (elasticsearch connector) instead of logstash, for one of theEnvoirnment, i want to know which one is better. Please advice me.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/2 "2017-01-09T22:35:50Z")
Better for what?
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### Author:  [@venkat\_venkat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkat_venkat)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/3 "2017-01-09T22:40:14Z")
I am more curious about the performance, Which are the dependencies for the kafka connect (elasticsearch connector) and Performance of both logstash and kafka connect.
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### Author:  [@venkat\_venkat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkat_venkat)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/4 "2017-01-09T22:41:22Z")
what to know the performance, which one give us good performance.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/5 "2017-01-09T22:41:48Z")
Performance for what? What are you wanting to do exactly?
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### Author:  [@venkat\_venkat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkat_venkat)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/6 "2017-01-09T22:42:38Z")
For injecting data...
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### Author:  [@venkat\_venkat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkat_venkat)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/7 "2017-01-09T22:44:45Z")
1. elastic search connector from kafka topic to elastic search index or 2) kafka topic - logstash - elastic search
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### Author:  [@venkat\_venkat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/venkat_venkat)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/8 "2017-01-09T22:48:09Z")
Did you get my point or can i elaborate more on this ??
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/9 "2017-01-10T06:37:31Z")
Performance of the ingest pipeline depends a lot on the type of processing you want to perform, and the best way to find out is to benchmark with real data and real transformations. You may also want to examine aspects like error handling, resilience and how easy it is to manage depending on what your requirements are.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kafka-connect-elasticsearch-connector-vs-logstash/71005/10 "2017-02-07T06:38:02Z")
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