# Load balancing data from Filebeat to Logstash using Nginx

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-data-from-filebeat-to-logstash-using-nginx/179473
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [May 3, 2019, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-data-from-filebeat-to-logstash-using-nginx/179473 "2019-05-03T06:06:20Z")
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### Author: ![A\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a_b/32/17104_2.png) [@A\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_B)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-balancing-data-from-filebeat-to-logstash-using-nginx/179473/5 "2019-05-06T07:45:25Z")

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Spent 2 more minutes looking at it as I got curious...

From [Beats protocol](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-protocol/54296)

```
The lumberjack protocol sits on TCP. With TLS support you have one of TCP/lumberjack or TCP/TLS/lumberjack.
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