# More prospectors?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/more-prospectors/73003>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 27, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/more-prospectors/73003 "2017-01-27T11:07:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Arthur\_Francis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arthur_francis/32/13065_2.png) [@Arthur\_Francis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arthur_Francis)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/more-prospectors/73003/1 "2017-01-27T11:07:06Z")

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Will increasing the number of prospectors increase how fast Filebeat sends events through to output?

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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:** [January 27, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/more-prospectors/73003/2 "2017-01-27T13:12:20Z")

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no. Number of prospectors is independent of outputs. All events have to pass the same pipeline and same output.

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**Author:** ![Arthur\_Francis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arthur_francis/32/13065_2.png) [@Arthur\_Francis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arthur_Francis)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/more-prospectors/73003/3 "2017-01-30T13:15:46Z")

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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:** [February 27, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/more-prospectors/73003/4 "2017-02-27T13:15:54Z")

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