# FileBeat To Exit when it can't reach LogStash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-to-exit-when-it-cant-reach-logstash/47081>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [April 12, 2016, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-to-exit-when-it-cant-reach-logstash/47081 "2016-04-12T07:59:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Johan\_Jordaan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johan_jordaan/32/9082_2.png) [@Johan\_Jordaan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Johan_Jordaan)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 7:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-to-exit-when-it-cant-reach-logstash/47081/1 "2016-04-12T07:59:14Z")

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Hi

Is it possible to configure FileBeat to exit if it cannot connect to LogStash. I lookup my logstash ip from etcd and then startup filebeat using this IP. If however the ip of logstash changes (which it can and will) i would like filebeat to stop. The restart process (managed by systemd) will then lookup the ip and configure filebeat to use the new ip. I would prefer not to revert to DNS to solve this issue. Any suggestions ?

Regards  
Johan

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-to-exit-when-it-cant-reach-logstash/47081/2 "2016-04-12T12:24:02Z")

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Filebeat doesn't currently have that option, so I would recommend setting something outside of Filebeat, for example something like [this](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-confd-and-etcd-to-dynamically-reconfigure-services-in-coreos).

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**Author:** ![Johan\_Jordaan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johan_jordaan/32/9082_2.png) [@Johan\_Jordaan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Johan_Jordaan)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-to-exit-when-it-cant-reach-logstash/47081/3 "2016-04-12T13:59:50Z")

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Nice. Confd would do exactly what I want. Thanks.

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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-to-exit-when-it-cant-reach-logstash/47081/4 "2017-07-05T21:53:26Z")

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