# Maintaining Multiple Logstash Servers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintaining-multiple-logstash-servers/275315>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 8, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintaining-multiple-logstash-servers/275315 "2021-06-08T15:15:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![6igwig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/6igwig/32/88971_2.png) [@6igwig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/6igwig)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintaining-multiple-logstash-servers/275315/1 "2021-06-08T15:15:26Z")

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I would like to set up multiple logstash servers for load balancing as mentioned [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/deploying-and-scaling.html#_scalability). Is there a best practice for maintaining the multiple pipeline files (one for each instance of logstash) besides just configuring one and copy/pasting to the other servers?

My logstash filters are a constant work in progress so having to make sure all the pipelines stay in sync across all the logstash servers seems pretty arduous!

Any tips would be greatly appreciated 🙂

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintaining-multiple-logstash-servers/275315/2 "2021-06-08T15:40:35Z")

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It really depends on your infrastructure, but you can automate things using ansible, scripts, crontab and git.

You can for example keep all your pipelines in a git repository and clone this repository in your logstash servers, then you would configure your `pipelines.yml` to point to the config files in this repository.

Every time you need to update you would just need to make a `git pull` in the logstash servers, which you could do using a crontab or automate with ansible.

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**Author:** ![6igwig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/6igwig/32/88971_2.png) [@6igwig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/6igwig)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintaining-multiple-logstash-servers/275315/3 "2021-06-08T15:54:07Z")

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Ok sounds good, thanks!!

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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:** [July 6, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maintaining-multiple-logstash-servers/275315/4 "2021-07-06T15:54:28Z")

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