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Add note about Logstash Elasticsearch input
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## Read This First

*If you've just wandered here, first check out [Logstash](http://github.com/elasticsearch/logstash). It's a much more general tool, and one of our featured products. If for some reason it doesn't do something that's important to you, create an issue there. stream2es is a dev tool that originated before the author knew much about Logstash. That said, there are some important differences that are specific to Elasticsearch. stream2es supports bulks by byte-length (`--bulk-bytes`) instead of doc count, which is crucial with docs of varying size. It also supports exporting raw bulks via `--tee-bulk` to a hashed dir on the filesystem. Finally, the biggest difference is that you can make the incoming stream finite with `--max-docs`.*
*If you've just wandered here, first check out [Logstash](http://github.com/elasticsearch/logstash). It's a much more general tool, and one of our featured products. If for some reason it doesn't do something that's important to you, create an issue there. stream2es is a dev tool that originated before the author knew much about Logstash. That said, there are some important differences that are specific to Elasticsearch. stream2es supports bulks by byte-length (`--bulk-bytes`) instead of doc count, which is crucial with docs of varying size. It also supports exporting raw bulks via `--tee-bulk` to a hashed dir on the filesystem, and you can make the incoming stream finite with `--max-docs`.*

## Install

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## Elasticsearch

*Note: Logstash 1.5.0 has an [Elasticsearch input](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-elasticsearch.html) now.*

If you use the `es` stream, you can copy indices from one Elasticsearch to another. Example:

% stream2es es \
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