What is the difference between logstash and kibana pipelines?

rodri.gz · September 6, 2021, 8:37am

Hi!

I have always used logstash but I would like to know if it could be replaced by kibana pipelines or if using kibana pipelines has any limitations

thanks in advance!

warkolm · September 6, 2021, 10:11am

Can you elaborate please, Kibana doesn't have a concept of pipelines.

rodri.gz · September 6, 2021, 10:17am

first of all, thank for answering!

this is not like pipelines in logstash?

warkolm · September 6, 2021, 10:21am

Ahh ok, that's the UI for Ingest pipelines | Elasticsearch Guide [7.14] | Elastic.

TLDR the ones you can setup in Elasticsearch via Kibana (ingest pipelines) are meant to be a bit simpler to setup and manage, but you loose some of the more advanced features of Logstash.

rodri.gz · September 6, 2021, 10:38am

could you say some of that advanced features?
i`m considering using only ui kibana

warkolm · September 6, 2021, 10:55am

Here's what ingest pipelines support - Ingest processor reference | Elasticsearch Guide [7.14] | Elastic

Compared to Logstash;

rodri.gz · September 6, 2021, 11:55am

Thank you!

system · October 4, 2021, 11:56am

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