Hello,
are you planning to support UDP output ? It would be very helpful to achieve true load balancing when using a 3rd party load balancer.
Typically, we have a load-balancer (hardware appliance) with backend servers behind it (they are unreachable directly). Winlogbeat must go trough the load-balancer to upload the logs, however, TCP is sticky and defeats the load-balancing.
If we were able to send the data using UDP, the problem would be solved as the load-balancer would be able to load-balance each packets.
The "TTL" option doesn't allow proper load-balancing (sending thousands of events on one node, then doing the same on another node is not load-balancing).
What do you think about UDP support for winlogbeat ? Is that scheduled? Does this require major changes to the code?
Thanks !