# Optimum number of workers
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/optimum-number-of-workers/243324
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 31, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/optimum-number-of-workers/243324 "2020-07-31T08:34:06Z")
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### Author:  [@Darshan\_Parab](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Darshan_Parab)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/optimum-number-of-workers/243324/1 "2020-07-31T08:34:06Z")
Hello guys,
I have a Kafka topic with 5 partitions. Assume I setup a 2 node Logstash cluster each with a pipeline to read from a Kafka topic, and each pipeline is assigned 4 worker nodes.
Now what would be the number of consumers that are reading from Kafka topic? Is it 2 or 8?
Thanks.
Darshan
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/optimum-number-of-workers/243324/2 "2020-07-31T14:22:41Z")
Two. The number of worker threads does not affect the number of inputs.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/optimum-number-of-workers/243324/3 "2020-08-28T14:22:49Z")
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