# Metricbeat Logstash module payload size

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-logstash-module-payload-size/287247>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [October 21, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-logstash-module-payload-size/287247 "2021-10-21T06:29:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![admlko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/admlko/32/21787_2.png) [@admlko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/admlko)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-logstash-module-payload-size/287247/1 "2021-10-21T06:29:08Z")

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Hi,

I opened a ticket about this issue in the github, but it got closed and the issue was redirected here: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/28569](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/28569)

It is my understanding that the Logstash UDP output plugin doesn't do any batching, it just takes a single event and wraps it into a UDP packet and off it goes, correct?

I think the person who closed the ticket made a wrong assessment about the issue, I can confirm that with either node or node\_stats metricset enabled/disabled, the module sends the pipeline representation information which is the problem here, because it is so large (in my case, even though I have only about 10 filters and 1-2 inputs and outputs) that the limit of UDP packet is exceeded.

So based on this information, I would like to open a discussion about enabling Logstash node monitoring without pipeline monitoring. I though it would be already possible by selecting either node or node\_stats metricset but that is not the case.

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**Author:** ![admlko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/admlko/32/21787_2.png) [@admlko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/admlko)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-logstash-module-payload-size/287247/2 "2021-11-04T07:49:57Z")

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ping @andresrc

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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:** [December 2, 2021, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-logstash-module-payload-size/287247/3 "2021-12-02T09:50:21Z")

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