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title: Managing Logstash
description: Logstash provides configuration management features to make it easier for you to manage updates to your configuration over time. The topics in this section...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/logstash/managing-logstash
products:
  - Logstash
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Managing Logstash
Logstash provides configuration management features to make it easier for you to manage updates to your configuration over time.
The topics in this section describe Logstash configuration management features only. For information about other config management tools, such as Puppet and Chef, see the documentation for those projects.