Logstash to Elasticsearch

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Image showing Logstash collecting data and sending to Elasticsearch
Ingest model
Logstash to collect data from sources not currently supported by Elastic Agent and sending the data to Elasticsearch. Note that the data transformation still happens within the Elasticsearch ingest pipeline.
Use when
Elastic Agent doesn’t currently support your data source.
Examples
AWS Kinesis, databases, Kafka

Resources

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Before you implement this approach, check to see if an Elastic Agent integration exists and, if so, use it instead:

Info on Logstash and Logstash input and output plugins:

Info on Elasticsearch and ingest pipelines: