title: ElasticSearch on Azure - How to Logstash and install plugins?
body: <p>We are trying to develop a PoC for ElasticSearch on Azure Cloud</p>
  
  <p>We installed the Elastic template from Azure Marketplace, selected 3 nodes and now we have following configuration:
  1 Kibana VM
  3 Data VM
  3 Master VM</p>
  
  <p>What we can do so far:</p>
  
  <p>Connect and log in to Kibana (create simple index pattern from console)
  Connect to VMs via bash ssh
  What is still open and we desperately look for clear documentation:</p>
  
  <p>On which VM runs logstash?</p>
  
  <p>How to start logstash?</p>
  
  <p>Where to store the config files (for logstash but also if using jdbc plugin)?</p>
  
  <p>Installation of Kibana plugins: when trying to install for example <a href="https://github.com/Nico-DF/kibana-plugin-traffic-sg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Nico-DF/kibana-plugin-traffic-sg</a> I always get 'operation not permitted' even if I am logged in as the owner of the directory
  Is it impossible to install extra plugins on VMs?</p>
  
  <p>Installation of ES plugings like like <a href="https://github.com/Azure/azure-diagnostics-tools/tree/master/Logstash/logstash-input-azurewadtable" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Azure/azure-diagnostics-tools/tree/master/Logstash/logstash-input-azurewadtable</a> or <a href="https://github.com/Azure/azure-diagnostics-tools/tree/master/Logstash/logstash-input-azureblob" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Azure/azure-diagnostics-tools/tree/master/Logstash/logstash-input-azureblob</a>
  On which VM it should be installed? Master-0 I assume?
  But then under which directory?</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone direct us to some comprehensive (for dummies) guidelines/tutorial Or at least reply to our questions?</p>
  
  <p>thx a lot</p>