# Multiple Output Reliability

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-output-reliability/94772
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 27, 2017, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-output-reliability/94772 "2017-07-27T10:43:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![jogoinar10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jogoinar10/32/20068_2.png) [@jogoinar10](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jogoinar10)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2017, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-output-reliability/94772/1 "2017-07-27T10:43:06Z")

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How can I check if the data were successfully transferred to elasticsearch?

For example I got this output.

```
output {
 elasticsearch1 {
  hosts => ["xxx.xxx.xxx.250:9200"]
  index => "logstash1-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
 }
 elasticsearch2 {
  hosts => ["xxx.xxx.xxx.251:9200"]
  index => "logstash2-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
 }
}

```

1. If the server for elasticsearch 2 is down, does the data will still be transfered to elasticsearch1?

2. If the server for elasticsearch 2 is already up, will the logstash can get the previous data that was already stored in elasticsearch 1 during downtime if possible?

Thank you.

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2017, 11:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-output-reliability/94772/2 "2017-07-27T11:01:15Z")

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If any of the outputs is not available, Logstash will stop processing and retry sending the current data until it becomes available.

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### Author: ![jogoinar10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jogoinar10/32/20068_2.png) [@jogoinar10](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jogoinar10)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-output-reliability/94772/3 "2017-07-28T02:13:03Z")

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Oh nice! 🙂  
So it will be synchronize on sending the data, right?  
There's **no chance** that the other output is ahead in storing data.

Thank you for your reply @Christian_Dahlqvist

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### Author: ![jogoinar10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jogoinar10/32/20068_2.png) [@jogoinar10](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jogoinar10)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-output-reliability/94772/4 "2017-07-28T02:24:26Z")

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Another thing @Christian_Dahlqvist, Can I run multiple logstash so that if the 1 output is not available, output number 2 can still retrieve the data.

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### Author: ![jogoinar10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jogoinar10/32/20068_2.png) [@jogoinar10](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jogoinar10)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-output-reliability/94772/5 "2017-07-29T19:25:44Z")

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hmmm. up

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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: [August 26, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-output-reliability/94772/6 "2017-08-26T19:25:49Z")

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