# Manual logs in kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-logs-in-kibana/67341
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 28, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-logs-in-kibana/67341 "2016-11-28T12:09:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Shubham\_Agrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shubham_Agrawal)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-logs-in-kibana/67341/1 "2016-11-28T12:09:07Z")
Hi,
So a user visits my kibana host, to track his/her activity, i want to generate manual logs. what kind of functionality would i require to achieve this?
PS: if i achieve the above functionality, can i then use these logs for logstash?
PPS: i am using kibana version 4.5, elastic search version 2.3, what version should i use for logstash?
Thanks.
Shubham
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### Author:  [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-logs-in-kibana/67341/2 "2016-11-28T16:14:57Z")
hi @Shubham_Agrawal
Not exactly sure what you mean with "manual" logs, but if you mean tracking using your own technology stack, you'll probably have multiple options.
One straightforward approach is putting a reverse proxy in front of your Kibana deployment and use the logs from that server, one that redirects all traffic to the Kibana-server. e.g. nginx can be used with logstash ([http://logz.io/blog/nginx-log-analysis/](http://logz.io/blog/nginx-log-analysis/)). I think most web servers have some sort of reverse-proxying functionality, and you can ingest their logs with logstash.
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### Author:  [@Shubham\_Agrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shubham_Agrawal)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-logs-in-kibana/67341/3 "2016-11-28T16:29:25Z")
Hi ,
by manual i mean i want to generate a log saying that the user has visited this dashboard or that visualization or click on share button.
Also I am using nginx but those logs are not that informative. however kibana logs are much more enriched with info so i thought i should add some more logs to it. I will eventually use these logs with logstash.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manual-logs-in-kibana/67341/4 "2016-12-26T16:29:24Z")
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