# How to increase the throughput of filebeat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [June 11, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-throughput-of-filebeat/236708 "2020-06-11T13:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iammanmale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5e9695/32.png) [@iammanmale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iammanmale)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-throughput-of-filebeat/236708/1 "2020-06-11T13:22:45Z")
Although I have many GBs log waiting to be harvested and I have not configured any limitation(e.g max\_proc or something like that ) in the filebeat.yml but the throughput of the filebeat is just 1XX KB or slower. Is it normal? If i want to increase the throughput, what should I do? ---
**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-throughput-of-filebeat/236708/2 "2020-06-12T07:56:36Z")
Hi! In many outputs there is a `worker` option which sets the number of concurrent workers that send events to the output (elasticsearch or logstash or whetever). I would try with that: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/logstash-output.html#\_worker\_2](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/logstash-output.html#_worker_2) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-throughput-of-filebeat/236708/3 "2020-07-10T09:56:40Z")
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