# Why install and configure elasticsearch, kibana , and logstash, for logging mikrotik?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-install-and-configure-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash-for-logging-mikrotik/59772>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 5, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-install-and-configure-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash-for-logging-mikrotik/59772 "2016-09-05T03:11:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amryan\_18](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amryan_18/32/11766_2.png) [@Amryan\_18](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amryan_18)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-install-and-configure-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash-for-logging-mikrotik/59772/1 "2016-09-05T03:11:41Z")

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Can elasticsearch , Kibana and logstash take or pull data logging of proxy . ? if you can like where way configuration. ? please explain . ?

Thank you very much

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**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:** [September 5, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-install-and-configure-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash-for-logging-mikrotik/59772/2 "2016-09-05T03:29:16Z")

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It seems MikroTik's stuff can ship log messages over the syslog protocol, which Logstash supports. There are numerous examples in the documentation and elsewhere online that shows examples of this.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-install-and-configure-elasticsearch-kibana-and-logstash-for-logging-mikrotik/59772/3 "2017-07-05T22:22:37Z")

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