# Clustering logstash 5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [January 6, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clustering-logstash-5/70813 "2017-01-06T19:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jstar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jstar)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clustering-logstash-5/70813/1 "2017-01-06T19:58:48Z")
Hi Everybody, I wanted to know if it is possible to install logstash 5 as a cluster? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clustering-logstash-5/70813/2 "2017-01-06T23:00:52Z")
It is not. ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clustering-logstash-5/70813/3 "2017-01-08T16:29:06Z")
> I wanted to know if it is possible to install logstash 5 as a cluster? That depends on exactly what you mean by cluster. Can Logstash instances talk to each other and seamlessly work together (similar to Elasticsearch)? No. Can Logstash instances consume messages from the same input sources? It depends. ---
**Author:** ![jstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jstar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jstar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clustering-logstash-5/70813/4 "2017-01-17T14:10:36Z")
@magnusbaeck Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the delay, I had something vzery urgent to handle. > [@magnusbaeck](#): > > Can Logstash instances talk to each other and seamlessly work together (similar to Elasticsearch)? Yes indeed I wanted something similar to Elasticsearch. > [@magnusbaeck](#): > > Can Logstash instances consume messages from the same input sources? This sounds interesting, Please can you explain more? ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clustering-logstash-5/70813/5 "2017-01-17T14:15:42Z")
> This sounds interesting, Please can you explain more? Logstash has several input plugins for pulling messages from brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis. If multiple Logstash instances are configured to consume from the same queue on the broker side the flow won't stop even if one of more Logstash instances are disabled. ---
**Author:** ![jstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jstar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jstar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clustering-logstash-5/70813/6 "2017-01-17T14:21:41Z")
@magnusbaeck, Many thanks. Then I will used this idea as a workaround. ---
**Author:** ![panaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@panaman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/panaman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clustering-logstash-5/70813/7 "2017-01-17T20:41:04Z")
you could load balance multiple logstash instances with haproxy ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clustering-logstash-5/70813/8 "2017-02-14T20:41:09Z")
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