# Filebeat Protocol and Load Balancer

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-protocol-and-load-balancer/46689>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 7, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-protocol-and-load-balancer/46689 "2016-04-07T13:34:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Johannes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Johannes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Johannes)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-protocol-and-load-balancer/46689/1 "2016-04-07T13:34:10Z")

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Hi guys,

we are planing to use Logstash behind a load balancer. As a source we want to use Filebeat. Therefore we want to know if Filebeat uses a stateless or statefull protocol.

Thanks for your time.  
Regards  
Johannes

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-protocol-and-load-balancer/46689/2 "2016-04-07T16:25:37Z")

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filebeat -\> logstash is statefull.

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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, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-protocol-and-load-balancer/46689/3 "2017-07-05T21:53:38Z")

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