# Logstash configuration api

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-configuration-api/53946>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 25, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-configuration-api/53946 "2016-06-25T18:55:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![prabhakar349](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@prabhakar349](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhakar349)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-configuration-api/53946/1 "2016-06-25T18:55:54Z")

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Hi ,

Is there any plan to provide rest API for configuring logstash ?

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**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:** [June 25, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-configuration-api/53946/2 "2016-06-25T20:54:43Z")

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APIs are coming in 5.0, initially for monitoring but the long term plan is for configuration as well.  
I don;t know the timeframe though.

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**Author:** ![prabhakar349](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@prabhakar349](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhakar349)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-configuration-api/53946/3 "2016-07-20T15:46:28Z")

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Thank you for the response

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-configuration-api/53946/4 "2017-07-06T04:47:15Z")

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