# Sending to Ingest Node

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-to-ingest-node/152287>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-to-ingest-node/152287 "2018-10-12T18:20:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-to-ingest-node/152287/1 "2018-10-12T18:20:26Z")

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Hi,  
I'm considering sending directly from filebeat to elasticsearch ingest nodes. Can I ask, how reliable is this vs using the beats protocol to logstash?

Regards,  
D

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-to-ingest-node/152287/2 "2018-10-13T10:44:51Z")

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I would say there is little difference. Both protocols have acknowledgements built in and Filebeat will retry until the data has been acknowledged by the receiver.

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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 7:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-to-ingest-node/152287/3 "2018-10-15T07:14:20Z")

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Ok, thank you. Which does the best job of preventing duplicates? Or is the only way to use fingerprints to generate document ids?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-to-ingest-node/152287/4 "2018-10-15T07:16:00Z")

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> [@dawiro](#):
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> Or is the only way to use fingerprints to generate document ids?

Yes.

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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:** [November 12, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-to-ingest-node/152287/5 "2018-11-12T07:23:54Z")

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