# Output workers in elastic search plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/output-workers-in-elastic-search-plugin/66478>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 18, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/output-workers-in-elastic-search-plugin/66478 "2016-11-18T05:43:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mayank\_Agrawal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mayank\_Agrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mayank_Agrawal)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/output-workers-in-elastic-search-plugin/66478/1 "2016-11-18T05:43:02Z")

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In the document of elastic search output plugin [(document link)](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-elasticsearch.html), it is mentioned under 'workers' that "Output workers are no longer supported. Please use plugin workers".

I did not understand the meaning of it. What does it mean by 'plugin workers' ?  
How do I use the 'workers' attribute?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/output-workers-in-elastic-search-plugin/66478/2 "2016-11-22T21:01:05Z")

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Perhaps they mean pipeline workers?

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**Author:** ![Mayank\_Agrawal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mayank\_Agrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mayank_Agrawal)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/output-workers-in-elastic-search-plugin/66478/3 "2016-12-01T09:03:21Z")

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Thank you Magnus for replying. May be you are right.

Could you please also have a look at question given at [Bottleneck while inputting data into the elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bottleneck-while-inputting-data-into-the-elasticsearch/67735) ???  
Please let me know if you have any idea how to solve this issue. 🙂

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**Author:** ![itanqian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5e9695/32.png) [@itanqian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/itanqian)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/output-workers-in-elastic-search-plugin/66478/4 "2016-12-14T09:32:00Z")

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I think you can see logstash.yml :[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.0/logstash-settings-file.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.0/logstash-settings-file.html)

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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:** [January 11, 2017, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/output-workers-in-elastic-search-plugin/66478/5 "2017-01-11T09:32:08Z")

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