# Recommendation about integration witk ELK Stack
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-about-integration-witk-elk-stack/58294
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 17, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-about-integration-witk-elk-stack/58294 "2016-08-17T21:23:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@rodher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rodher)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-about-integration-witk-elk-stack/58294/1 "2016-08-17T21:23:44Z")
Hello
I am working on ELK Stack integrating ElasticSearch, Logstash, KIbana; and occasionally FileBeat and Kafka.
I want to make some general recommendations to my technical team about integration to ELK stack.
For example: all log system **must be** integrated through Logstash or Filebeat or Kafka.
I mean do not integrate **directly** to Elasticsearch.
This recommendation make sense? It is a good practice connect to Elasticsearch **without** Logstash, Filebeat, Kafka ?
Thanks in advance for your comments
Kind Regards
Dario Rodriguez.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-about-integration-witk-elk-stack/58294/2 "2016-08-17T21:32:20Z")
FYI this category is about meetups and other IRL meetups. You may want to edit your post and move this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommendation-about-integration-witk-elk-stack/58294/3 "2017-07-05T22:27:09Z")