# Consumer thredas

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/consumer-thredas/144262>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 14, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/consumer-thredas/144262 "2018-08-14T00:25:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![wakame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@wakame](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wakame)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/consumer-thredas/144262/1 "2018-08-14T00:25:08Z")

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I am wondering how many consumer threads I need for the logstash. I have 1 topic in Kafka with 15 partitions. I have 6 logstash vm with 3 consumer threads. I’m doing around 100 million transactions a day. How many will be enough?

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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:** [September 11, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/consumer-thredas/144262/2 "2018-09-11T00:25:18Z")

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