# How many workers on filebeat?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-workers-on-filebeat/282354
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [August 24, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-workers-on-filebeat/282354 "2021-08-24T13:30:57Z")
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### Author: ![Arethusa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@Arethusa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arethusa)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-workers-on-filebeat/282354/1 "2021-08-24T13:30:57Z")

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Hello,

I am not sure to understand how many work do I need.

On this configuration I see that :

```auto
# nano /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml 

output.logstash:
  hosts: ["logstash1:5044","logstash2:5044","logstash3:5044"]
  loadbalance: true
  worker: 2

```

Do you think it's good ?

Thank you.

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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: [September 21, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-workers-on-filebeat/282354/2 "2021-09-21T15:31:58Z")

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