Elastic Agent to Logstash to Kafka to Logstash to Elasticsearch: Kafka as middleware message queueedit
- Ingest model
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Control path: Elastic Agent to Fleet to Elasticsearch
Data path: Elastic Agent to Logstash to Kafka to Logstash to Elasticsearch: Kafka as middleware message queue.Logstash reads data from Kafka and routes it to Elasticsearch clusters (and/or other destinations)
- Use when
- You are standardizing on Kafka as middleware message queue between Elastic Agent and Elasticsearch
- Notes
- The transformation from raw data to Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and any other enrichment can be handled by Logstash as described in Elastic Agent to Logstash (for enrichment) to Elasticsearch.
Resourcesedit
Info on Elastic Agent and agent integrations:
Info on Logstash and Logstash Kafka plugins:
Info on Elasticsearch: