# Filebeat Load balance logstash with kubernetes service

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-logstash-with-kubernetes-service/137373>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 26, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-logstash-with-kubernetes-service/137373 "2018-06-26T07:21:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![sivakr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@sivakr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sivakr)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-logstash-with-kubernetes-service/137373/1 "2018-06-26T07:21:02Z")

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In my kubernetes cluster

I have Filebeat running on a node and I have 6 instances of logstash for load balancing.

This is the configuration in Filebeat

> output.logstash:  
> hosts: [logstash.logstash:5044]  
> bulk\_max\_size: 4000

But when I check the events In rate for all logstash instances I can see few instances being idle having no load at all (Attached Screenshot

 ![04%20PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/8/58e99681690479af5980e6ed5a6fecdd81ac4061.png))

Does the load balance works with kubernetes service ? Or should I manually give all the endpoints but thats not the best practice though.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-logstash-with-kubernetes-service/137373/2 "2018-06-26T07:23:40Z")

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> [@sivakr](#):
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> hosts: [logstash.logstash:9600]

That looks odd. The 9600 port in Logstash is usually reserved for exposing monitoring data. Have you defined a beats input using this port?

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**Author:** ![sivakr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@sivakr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sivakr)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-logstash-with-kubernetes-service/137373/3 "2018-06-26T08:04:23Z")

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My bad I wrongly typed. Its port 5044

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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:** [July 24, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-logstash-with-kubernetes-service/137373/4 "2018-07-24T08:04:31Z")

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