which version of logstash are you using, for a while now the logstash output should never drop events but retry forever. If you're not seeing this it may be a bug.
My setup changed a bit recently so I'll have to see, but so far looks good, I was on 5.3.1 upgraded to 5.5.0 and added a message queue to the mix and decoupled the processing a bit.
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