# How many ESClients built by logstash-output-elasticsearch in 5.0?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-esclients-built-by-logstash-output-elasticsearch-in-5-0/64221>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 28, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-esclients-built-by-logstash-output-elasticsearch-in-5-0/64221 "2016-10-28T00:33:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![chenryn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chenryn/32/44917_2.png) [@chenryn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenryn)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-esclients-built-by-logstash-output-elasticsearch-in-5-0/64221/1 "2016-10-28T00:33:18Z")

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I remember that logstash-output-elasticsearch would built lots of ES clients in 2.2/2.3 NG pipeline, if we set the pipeline-workers a bit larger. This cause the indexing performance decreasing.

I haven't see any progress news in official blog, and here too. So, how it is now?

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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 6, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-esclients-built-by-logstash-output-elasticsearch-in-5-0/64221/2 "2017-07-06T04:32:15Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:32am UTC