# Manage multiple Logstash instances from central place

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-multiple-logstash-instances-from-central-place/76868>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 28, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-multiple-logstash-instances-from-central-place/76868 "2017-02-28T20:35:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Jayanna\_Hallur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a4c791/32.png) [@Jayanna\_Hallur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jayanna_Hallur)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-multiple-logstash-instances-from-central-place/76868/1 "2017-02-28T20:35:03Z")

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I wanted to have 4-6 Logstash instances to parse/transforms lots of data. The configuration file for parsing on these files needs to be placed in all Logstash instance running on different systems. Later if I have to modify the configuration, I need to login to all logstash instances and change manually.

Is there way to create logstash cluster, so that modifying configuration on one logstash will reflect on other logstash instances?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-multiple-logstash-instances-from-central-place/76868/2 "2017-02-28T20:39:34Z")

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You can use config management systems like puppet, chef, ansible, salt, etc.  
We have modules, cookbooks and playbooks for these 🙂

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**Author:** ![Jayanna\_Hallur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a4c791/32.png) [@Jayanna\_Hallur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jayanna_Hallur)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-multiple-logstash-instances-from-central-place/76868/3 "2017-02-28T20:43:35Z")

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Thank you for the quick response. Are these cookbooks available for free? If yes, where I can find them.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-multiple-logstash-instances-from-central-place/76868/4 "2017-02-28T22:15:10Z")

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Yes they are. Just search on [github.com/elastic](http://github.com/elastic)

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**Author:** ![Jayanna\_Hallur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a4c791/32.png) [@Jayanna\_Hallur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jayanna_Hallur)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-multiple-logstash-instances-from-central-place/76868/5 "2017-03-02T22:33:38Z")

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Thank you.

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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:** [March 30, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/manage-multiple-logstash-instances-from-central-place/76868/6 "2017-03-30T22:33:56Z")

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