# FileBeat slow - Improve performance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-slow-improve-performance/144717>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-slow-improve-performance/144717 "2018-08-16T12:41:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-slow-improve-performance/144717/11 "2018-08-23T11:55:31Z")

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Thanks for the final recap. Glad you found a combination of settings that work for you.

One more question: why did you set `compression_level: 3` in the end? Did you test multiple levels or more or less by my recommendation? Anyways, as filebeat+logstash run on same network infrastructure as other applications do, compression is a good idea. When testing with my logs I've seen a reduction in network bandwidth by a factor of 7.

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