# Logstash or straight?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-or-straight/253722
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [October 29, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-or-straight/253722 "2020-10-29T15:35:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Tuckson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tuckson)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-or-straight/253722/1 "2020-10-29T15:35:57Z")
Hi,
Simpel question,
What would be the (dis)advantage of sending metrics via logstash to ES instead of directly?
Cheers,
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### Author:  [@Tuckson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tuckson)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-or-straight/253722/2 "2020-11-12T09:17:08Z")
nobody?
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### Author:  [@Wolfram\_Haussig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfram_Haussig)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-or-straight/253722/3 "2020-11-13T07:57:51Z")
Hello Eric,
I see the complexity as the biggest disadvantage of this setup: You have one more possible root of errors, more network traffic, one more application to maintain, update, ...
The question is: why would you want that?
- If you want to post process the data yu could also use an ELasticSearch ingest pipeline.
- If you do not want to open access from all servers to the elastic cluster you could host an ingest node which is accessible from those servers instead of a LogStash instance.
I am not saying that LogStash is bad - in fact we use it a lot - but I prefer to keep the pipeline from host to the Elastic Stack as clean and easy as possible.
Best regards
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-or-straight/253722/4 "2020-12-11T09:57:57Z")
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