# Beats load balancer feature vs F5 Load balancer

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-load-balancer-feature-vs-f5-load-balancer/286332>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat, heartbeat\
**Created:** [October 11, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-load-balancer-feature-vs-f5-load-balancer/286332 "2021-10-11T05:10:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ismaeel\_Enjreny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ismaeel_enjreny/32/69578_2.png) [@Ismaeel\_Enjreny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ismaeel_Enjreny)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-load-balancer-feature-vs-f5-load-balancer/286332/1 "2021-10-11T05:10:53Z")

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Beats (Filebeat and Heartbeat) provide a way to do load balancing when they send data to output (to Logstash or Elasticsearch), the configuration include the following points:

```auto
hosts: ["localhost:5044", "localhost:5045"]
loadbalance: true

```

Usually, all load balancing job in enterprise environment is done by tools like F5, in case we have a load balancer.

The question is, Which one is better to be used, the built-in capability with beat or the dedicated tool like F5?

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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:** [November 8, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-load-balancer-feature-vs-f5-load-balancer/286332/2 "2021-11-08T07:11:24Z")

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