# High Availability for Logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-logstash/116742>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 23, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-logstash/116742 "2018-01-23T19:47:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Anjan\_Pratap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@Anjan\_Pratap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anjan_Pratap)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-logstash/116742/1 "2018-01-23T19:47:33Z")

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Hi Everyone,

I have ELK configured with 4 ES Cluster Nodes , one logstash and one Kibana Node.  
I want to have redundant logstash. Didnt find any solid procedure to configure logstash in cluster. I am using filebeat and kafka as input for my logstash.

Please suggest procedure on having multiple logstash nodes.

Thanks  
Pratap

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-logstash/116742/2 "2018-01-23T21:21:39Z")

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So Logstash fetches all its input from Kafka? Make all Logstash instances consume from the same topic and consumer group.

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**Author:** ![Anjan\_Pratap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@Anjan\_Pratap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anjan_Pratap)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-logstash/116742/3 "2018-01-24T15:51:11Z")

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Thanks for the update,  
I configured both the logstash instances to consume from the same kafka group.  
If I stop logstash instance, the other logstash is processing the kafka messages.  
But how can I manage fiebeat

Regards  
Pratap.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-logstash/116742/4 "2018-01-25T10:04:49Z")

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> But how can I manage fiebeat

Isn't Filebeat posting logs to Kafka?

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**Author:** ![Anjan\_Pratap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@Anjan\_Pratap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anjan_Pratap)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-logstash/116742/5 "2018-01-25T14:09:29Z")

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filebeat directly to logstash

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**Author:** ![ericrichter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@ericrichter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ericrichter)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-logstash/116742/6 "2018-01-25T14:24:54Z")

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output.logstash:  
hosts: ["host1:5044", "host2:5044"]  
loadbalance: true

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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:** [February 22, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/high-availability-for-logstash/116742/7 "2018-02-22T14:25:11Z")

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