# Failed to publish events: connect: connection refused
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-connect-connection-refused/309785
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 16, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-connect-connection-refused/309785 "2022-07-16T11:47:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@knitehias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knitehias)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-connect-connection-refused/309785/1 "2022-07-16T11:47:45Z")
Hi Experts,
I am using beats-\>logstash-\>elasticsearch-kibana stack.
Every now and then my file beat will log error log then no other logging at all
| 2022-07-16T10:04:26.148Z | ERROR | [publisher\_pipeline\_output] | pipeline/output.go:180 | failed to publish events: dial tcp 10.xx.xx.x:5000: connect: connection refused |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2022-07-16T10:04:40.940Z | ERROR | [publisher\_pipeline\_output] | pipeline/output.go:180 | failed to publish events: dial tcp 10.xx.xx.x:5000: connect: connection refused |
Is that because my logstash is overloaded or shall I restart my filebeat? I need some help to get the best practise here.
This is my production env by the way.
filebeat:
version: 7.16.2
resources:
limits:
cpu: "250m"
memory: "300Mi"
requests:
cpu: "250m"
memory: "300Mi"
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### Author:  [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-connect-connection-refused/309785/2 "2022-07-19T10:58:48Z")
Can you check with telnet if logstash is accessible from that host?
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### Author:  [@knitehias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knitehias)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-connect-connection-refused/309785/3 "2022-07-19T12:00:06Z")
Thanks. I actually do not know I could do that from logstash container, so it is to rule out the network layer issue right
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### Author:  [@knitehias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knitehias)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-connect-connection-refused/309785/4 "2022-07-20T14:31:35Z")
I do not have telnet installed on the image but I am sure the network is fine since after restarting the filebeat the log will be able to sent to logstash
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-connect-connection-refused/309785/5 "2022-08-17T16:32:22Z")
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