# Logstash shipper or filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-shipper-or-filebeat/39445>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 18, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-shipper-or-filebeat/39445 "2016-01-18T11:46:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kishore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kishore](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kishore)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-shipper-or-filebeat/39445/1 "2016-01-18T11:46:36Z")

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We are under the process of upgrading the versions of logstash and elasticsearch. Currently we are using logstash-1.4.2 version.  
Our project flow is like this " logstash shipper (parse the logs here only) ---\> ( ( redis+ logstash indexer )-3 node cluster) ---\>elasticsearch(2 node cluster)".

We get 250,000 hits per hour an average to elasticsearch.

Recently i come across the 'filebeat' concept, Kindly suggest me the best approach to ship the logs, shall i proceed with existing flow or shall i use filebeat instead of logstash shipper ---\> redis?

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Thanks in Advance.

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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:** [January 18, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-shipper-or-filebeat/39445/2 "2016-01-18T22:03:23Z")

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> [@kishore909](#):
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> Recently i come across the 'filebeat' concept, Kindly suggest me the best approach to ship the logs, shall i proceed with existing flow or shall i use filebeat instead of logstash shipper ---\> redis?

Do you mean Logstash as a shipper or Logstash Forwarder?

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**Author:** ![Kishore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kishore](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kishore)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-shipper-or-filebeat/39445/3 "2016-01-19T07:03:24Z")

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Thank you Mark Walkom for your response.

Yes, you understood correctly, kindly suggest me a best approach.

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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:** [January 19, 2016, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-shipper-or-filebeat/39445/4 "2016-01-19T07:08:29Z")

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> [@kishore909](#):
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> Yes, you understood correctly

I don't though, that is why I asked.

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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, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-shipper-or-filebeat/39445/5 "2017-07-06T05:15:16Z")

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