# Why is Logstash not part of Elastic Cloud?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-logstash-not-part-of-elastic-cloud/119893>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 14, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-logstash-not-part-of-elastic-cloud/119893 "2018-02-14T23:59:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![lfk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/22d042/32.png) [@lfk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lfk)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-logstash-not-part-of-elastic-cloud/119893/1 "2018-02-14T23:59:46Z")

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I'm planning to start using ELK for logging and I've opened a trial Elastic Cloud account. However, I've noticed that Logstash is not included. I thought the idea behind using Elastic Cloud was so that we wouldn't need to provision and manage our own servers and clusters. But now I need to set up and maintain a Logstash server and integrate it with my Elasticsearch cluster.

Is there something I'm missing here? Is there a better way to do this without running a Logstash server? I know I could send logs directly from Beats to Elasticsearch, but my understanding is that Beats don't allow much transforming of the logs.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-logstash-not-part-of-elastic-cloud/119893/2 "2018-02-15T00:07:27Z")

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> [@lfk](#):
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> own servers and clusters

Yep, just Elasticsearch and Kibana at this stage. We are working towards Logstash though 🙂

> [@lfk](#):
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> my understanding is that Beats don't allow much transforming of the logs

Yep, but you can also look at ingest nodes - [Ingest Node | Elasticsearch Reference [6.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/ingest.html)

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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:** [March 15, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-logstash-not-part-of-elastic-cloud/119893/3 "2018-03-15T00:07:54Z")

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