# Metricbeat output hosts (solved)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-output-hosts-solved/81592>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [April 7, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-output-hosts-solved/81592 "2017-04-07T09:56:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![ironbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@ironbeast](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ironbeast)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-output-hosts-solved/81592/1 "2017-04-07T09:56:25Z")

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Hi All,

Just a quick question. For logstash it is better to use your elasticsearch client nodes as output. But how is this for metricbeat? OUtput to ALL of my nodes or also only to the client nodes? (For the record, my client nodes don't contain data)

Kind regards,

Koen

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-output-hosts-solved/81592/2 "2017-04-07T17:00:17Z")

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client nodes being mostly an Elasticsearch concept, the same principles as for other ingesters (e.g. Logstash) do apply, do apply for metricbeat as well. Using client nodes, the distribution of events is done by the client nodes, such that the data nodes are free to use it's resources for other tasks.

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**Author:** ![ironbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@ironbeast](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ironbeast)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-output-hosts-solved/81592/3 "2017-04-08T07:43:46Z")

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Ok. 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:** [May 6, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-output-hosts-solved/81592/4 "2017-05-06T07:48:14Z")

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