# Using beats and send logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-beats-and-send-logstash/67699
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [December 1, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-beats-and-send-logstash/67699 "2016-12-01T02:15:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@bob-bza](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bob-bza)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-beats-and-send-logstash/67699/1 "2016-12-01T02:15:20Z")
I was new not ELK, sending logs from multiple beats to single logstash with same tag, but was not able to see all the beats hosts in kibana.
for ex: i was sending 5beats to 1logstash with same tag name. but can see only first beat logs but rest other beats i was not able to see. this was syntax i was using.
input {
beats {
port =\> 5044
tags =\> ["kafka"]
}
output {
if "kafka" in [tags] {
elasticsearch {
action =\> "index"
hosts =\> "elasticsearch:80"
index =\> "kafka"
}
}
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-beats-and-send-logstash/67699/2 "2016-12-05T15:20:19Z")
Which beats and logstash version are you using? Which logstash input beats plugin? Have you checked beats and logstash logs?
Why use tags and and `if "kafka" in [tags]` in order to send to "kafka" index? While ok, this pattern doesn't scale this well.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-beats-and-send-logstash/67699/3 "2016-12-22T02:15:29Z")
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