# Logstash diagram?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-diagram/28468>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 1, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-diagram/28468 "2015-09-01T20:55:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Stanislav\_Rudenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stanislav_rudenko/32/4523_2.png) [@Stanislav\_Rudenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stanislav_Rudenko)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-diagram/28468/1 "2015-09-01T20:55:43Z")

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Hey guys,

I'm trying to understand relation between Logstash, Logstash client (logstash-forwarder) and other parts.

When I just dived into this I was sure that logstash forwarder reports to broker (for ex. redis) directly, it is obvious from [this diagram](http://logstash.net/docs/1.1.1/tutorials/getting-started-centralized-overview-diagram.png) or [this one](http://cdn.infoq.com/statics_s2_20150819-0313/resource/articles/review-the-logstash-book/en/resources/2fig2.jpg) .

Then I found [this diagram](http://sematext.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/sketchnote.png) or [this one](http://blog.lusis.org/images/posts/load-balancing-logstash-with-amqp/gliffy-overview.png) which shows that actually logstash-forwarder reports to logstash and logstash it self puts data into broker.

So my question:  
Is logstash client can report either to broker or to logstash directly?

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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:** [September 1, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-diagram/28468/2 "2015-09-01T21:21:32Z")

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That depends on what client you use, LSF cannot, but there are others out there that can.

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**Author:** ![Stanislav\_Rudenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stanislav_rudenko/32/4523_2.png) [@Stanislav\_Rudenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stanislav_Rudenko)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-diagram/28468/3 "2015-09-01T21:33:10Z")

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Could you please share some client names which can post information directly to broker? Thank you

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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:** [September 1, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-diagram/28468/4 "2015-09-01T21:49:22Z")

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Logstash Courier is one of them, there may be others but I am not aware of them.

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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, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-diagram/28468/5 "2017-07-06T05:30:28Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 5:30am UTC