# How can I configure logstash in this way?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-configure-logstash-in-this-way/281561>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-configure-logstash-in-this-way/281561 "2021-08-16T14:28:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-configure-logstash-in-this-way/281561/3 "2021-08-16T15:09:39Z")

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Thanks for your reply 🙂  
I just need a way to increase scalability and resilience. So I would add more logstash instances. But I want to know what are the disadvanteges too.

I just noticed that I can configure the beats to do the load balancing with multiple instances of logstash: [How to make Filebeat send events to multiple logstash in roundrobin](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-filebeat-send-events-to-multiple-logstash-in-roundrobin/37780)

So at this point what is the best option to get more scalability and resilience?

- Add multiple host and loadbalance=true in the beats configuration
- Use logstash as loadbalancer with lumberjack plugin
- Use a dedicated tool like NGINX or HAProxy
- or other

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