# Pipeline in Elastic cloud

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pipeline-in-elastic-cloud/219215>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pipeline-in-elastic-cloud/219215 "2020-02-13T13:48:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ErwinEnableU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@ErwinEnableU](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ErwinEnableU)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pipeline-in-elastic-cloud/219215/1 "2020-02-13T13:48:34Z")

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Hi everyone, I am a new to the Elasticsearch stack. We are using the Elasticsearch cloud (7.5.2).  
Because logstash isn't part of the cloud solution I am trying out the ingest node using the pipeline.  
We want to be able to manipulate the incomming data.

I found the discription for the ingest node on this URL: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/ingest.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/ingest.html)

Within the Management section I have created a Hello\_world pipeline

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/6/36b8448238705ac6994feb0a1d8549e20be4b818.png)  
(I have editted the screenshot: the host, user and password)

To check if this pipeline works, I used the Dev Tools. But I get an error saying it is an illegal\_argument\_exception. status = 400

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/3/b3fa5cdda02786e9e70287e3b46ca4920d81913e.png)  
What am I doing wrong?  
Is there other information, I have not found yet?

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**Author:** ![Magnus\_Kessler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnus_kessler/32/42001_2.png) [@Magnus\_Kessler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Magnus_Kessler)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pipeline-in-elastic-cloud/219215/2 "2020-02-13T14:30:55Z")

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You are confusing [centrally managed Logstash pipelines](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/logstash-centralized-pipeline-management.html) with [ingest processors](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ingest.html) that run in Elasticsearch itself.

With Elastic Cloud you can still use Logstash if you want to; it needs to run on an additional server that you provide and control.

However, if you prefer to do any data transformation in Elasticsearch itself and just send the data in packaged up in JSON format, use an ingest processor.

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**Author:** ![ErwinEnableU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@ErwinEnableU](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ErwinEnableU)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pipeline-in-elastic-cloud/219215/3 "2020-02-14T06:58:19Z")

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Thank you. That is very clear. I will get further in my configuration process.

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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:** [March 13, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pipeline-in-elastic-cloud/219215/4 "2020-03-13T06:58:19Z")

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