# Filebeat load balance problem

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-problem/39898>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [January 22, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-problem/39898 "2016-01-22T15:34:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![baoxiao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@baoxiao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baoxiao)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-problem/39898/1 "2016-01-22T15:34:10Z")

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I try to set up filebeat to send log file to 2 logstash instances using load balance with this  
logstash:  
hosts: ["host1:5044","host2:5044"]  
loadbalance: true

but filebeat always send logs to hosts1 even after I stop the logstash service on hosts1, it still try to connect to hosts1

Thanks

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**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 24, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-problem/39898/2 "2016-01-24T04:10:03Z")

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What version are you running?

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**Author:** ![baoxiao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@baoxiao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baoxiao)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-problem/39898/3 "2016-01-25T17:31:32Z")

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I am using 1.0.1

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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 5, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-load-balance-problem/39898/4 "2017-07-05T21:56:23Z")

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