# Use cases for Weblogic with ELK stack **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [January 7, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-cases-for-weblogic-with-elk-stack/38599 "2016-01-07T11:01:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harshal\_shah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85f322/32.png) [@harshal\_shah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/harshal_shah)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-cases-for-weblogic-with-elk-stack/38599/1 "2016-01-07T11:01:31Z")
I'm evaluating ELK stack to implement log centralization so that developers do not need to log on to unix boxes. All logs should be available on a single GUI tagged with host, JVM name. We already have weblogic JVM monitoring via HP Diagnostics so I don't see much use of filtering my logs via logstash and its filters. Are there any other use cases of logstash with weblogic which are not covered by existing monitoring tools ? I want to understand if it is really worth the effort to go for filebeat --\> logstash --\> elassticsearch --\> kibana ? If I want to implement above use case, I can simply do it via filebeat --\> elasticsearch --\> kibana. ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-cases-for-weblogic-with-elk-stack/38599/2 "2016-01-07T12:04:05Z")
Unless Weblogic is capable of producing JSON logs with discrete fields for the various kinds of information available in an application log message (including a timestamp that Elasticsearch can parse out of the box), that kind of canonicalization and parsing of the raw events is a major reason to use Logstash. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-cases-for-weblogic-with-elk-stack/38599/3 "2017-07-06T05:16:33Z")