# Plans to support UDP Logstash output

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-to-support-udp-logstash-output/194102>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-to-support-udp-logstash-output/194102 "2019-08-06T20:50:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![ssiws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@ssiws](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ssiws)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-to-support-udp-logstash-output/194102/1 "2019-08-06T20:50:47Z")

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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 !

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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:** [August 6, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-to-support-udp-logstash-output/194102/2 "2019-08-06T21:54:32Z")

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Given that UDP does not provide any delivery guarantees at all and the stack tries hard to prevent data loss I suspect that is unlikely.

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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:** [September 3, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plans-to-support-udp-logstash-output/194102/3 "2019-09-03T21:54:32Z")

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