# Why logstash is the best tool to send logs to Elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [December 19, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-logstash-is-the-best-tool-to-send-logs-to-elasticsearch/69458 "2016-12-19T14:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rajraja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@rajraja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajraja)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-logstash-is-the-best-tool-to-send-logs-to-elasticsearch/69458/1 "2016-12-19T14:19:48Z")
Hi Team, It is a kind question. I am just curious to know why logstash is the best tool to send logs to elasticsearch. We are running our all applications in AWS so, we are planning to use AWS Cloudwarch logs to collect and send application logs to elasticsearch. please give some suggestion for best practices. Regards, Raja ---
**Author:** ![guyboertje](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/guyboertje/32/31592_2.png) [@guyboertje](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guyboertje)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-logstash-is-the-best-tool-to-send-logs-to-elasticsearch/69458/2 "2016-12-20T16:46:52Z")
I'm not sure you will get a satisfactory answer to your question. Its a bit like asking the European Space Agency why the Ariane 5 rocket is the best vehicle to put satellites in space - they are not really going to tell you much about the Russian Federation Space Agency Soyuz FG rocket. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-logstash-is-the-best-tool-to-send-logs-to-elasticsearch/69458/3 "2017-01-17T16:47:16Z")
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