Filebeat default value for logstash load balance discrepancy

sila5 · September 21, 2017, 7:11pm

I noticed that on GitHub in the reference yml file for filebeat, under the logstash module, load balancing shows as true. I assumed this was the default but found out later when restarting one of my logstash instance's that wasn't the case.

Afterwards I found the master documentation states the default value is false.
To avoid confusion can the value for load balancing be changed to false in the yml reference file on github?

github.com

elastic/beats/blob/master/filebeat/filebeat.reference.yml

######################## Filebeat Configuration ############################

# This file is a full configuration example documenting all non-deprecated
# options in comments. For a shorter configuration example, that contains only
# the most common options, please see filebeat.yml in the same directory.
#
# You can find the full configuration reference here:
# https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/index.html


#==========================  Modules configuration ============================
filebeat.modules:

#------------------------------- System Module -------------------------------
#- module: system
  # Syslog
  #syslog:
    #enabled: true

    # Set custom paths for the log files. If left empty,

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https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/logstash-output.html

727 # Optional load balance the events between the Logstash hosts
728 #loadbalance: true

warkolm · September 21, 2017, 10:11pm

It's actually false because the enabled: true is commented out.

But you raise a valid point, perhaps we can comment in the config file what the default is. Do you mind raising a request on github?

sila5 · September 22, 2017, 4:00pm

Thank You for the input Mark! I've submitted a pull request on GitHub. If you get a chance to look at it, let me know if I'm following standard guidelines.

system · October 20, 2017, 4:00pm

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