Load balancing a 3 x Logstash behind PowerDNS setup

[yaauie (Ry Biesemeyer)]

The answers in this thread will probably help:

Load balancing with a single Logstash output

if I point Filebeat to a Logstash host with a DNS name of logstash.service.consul, which resolves to three IP addresses, can I expect Filebeat to load balance traffic across these three IP addresses? No. I'm wondering how/when Filebeat resolves DNS Filebeat queries for a list of all known IPs for some given host name. how/if Filebeat handles DNS records that resolve to multiple IP addresses Filebeat selects one of the IP-addresses by random and attempts to create exactly one network c…