# Problem with pipeline, grok and dashboards **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-pipeline-grok-and-dashboards/292818 **Category:** Beats **Tags:** filebeat **Created:** [December 23, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-pipeline-grok-and-dashboards/292818 "2021-12-23T15:01:22Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb) #### Post date: [December 30, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-pipeline-grok-and-dashboards/292818/8 "2021-12-30T15:04:53Z")
Exactly what filebeat setup command did you run? I asked this because a lot of folks just run setup with the `–-dashboards` and don't realize other assets need to be loaded. In fact, the most important ones need to be loaded, You should just run `filebeat setup -e` My suggestion is to always get filebeat directly to Elasticsearch up and running and working first... And ONLY after this works ...then introduce Logstash. So in short Make this architecture work first Filebeat -\> Elasticsearch Then get this architecture to work Filebeat -\> Logstash -\> Elasticsearch Here are the steps I would follow this example happens to be metricbeat but the same pattern applies for filebeat. > [@Metricbeat to Logstash to ElasticSearch - Cannot See Any Hosts Defined, But Data Is Definitely Coming In](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-to-logstash-to-elasticsearch-cannot-see-any-hosts-defined-but-data-is-definitely-coming-in/275715/2): > > Hi @jthart Welcome to the community apologies that you're having some struggles getting this set up Perhaps we can help. Assuming you want to run an architecture like this Metricbeat (1 to Many) -\> Logstash -\> Elasticsearch Basically using Logstash as a collect and pass through Here is my recommendation try to resist the urge to make this more complex. Do not try to manually load index templates dashboards anything else follow the quick start / basic setup. Clean everything up we're star… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-pipeline-grok-and-dashboards/292818)._