# About New ELK load balance architecture?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-new-elk-load-balance-architecture/69633>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 21, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-new-elk-load-balance-architecture/69633 "2016-12-21T03:51:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Robin\_Guo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robin_guo/32/42297_2.png) [@Robin\_Guo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robin_Guo)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-new-elk-load-balance-architecture/69633/1 "2016-12-21T03:51:20Z")

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Dear Folks,

Now we want to try this new version of **ELK stack(5.1)** for metrics collecting, but I have some doubts about balance architecture.

_architecture 1:_

**Metricbeat-\>Logstash cluster(logstash1,logstash2,logstash3)-\>elastic cluster(elastic-1,elastic-2,elastic-3)**

_architecture 2:_

**Metricbeat-\>Redis cluster(Redis1,Redis2,Redis3)-\>Logstash cluster(logstash1,logstash2,logstash3)-\>elastic cluster(elastic-1,elastic-2,elastic-3)**

My concern is that Does Metricbeat can directly sent metrics to logstash cluster or we need put a proxy before logstash cluster? How Kibana connect to elastic cluster?

which one is better ? Is there a use cases with high available and load balance for this new ELK architecture?

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Robin\_Guo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robin_guo/32/42297_2.png) [@Robin\_Guo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robin_Guo)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-new-elk-load-balance-architecture/69633/2 "2016-12-23T09:10:31Z")

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Any suggestions for this?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-new-elk-load-balance-architecture/69633/3 "2017-01-20T09:10:40Z")

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Closed on January 20, 2017, 9:10am UTC

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