# Skew in Logstash ingestion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skew-in-logstash-ingestion/162955>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skew-in-logstash-ingestion/162955 "2019-01-04T12:28:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![amitavmohanty01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/amitavmohanty01/32/58017_2.png) [@amitavmohanty01](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amitavmohanty01)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skew-in-logstash-ingestion/162955/1 "2019-01-04T12:28:24Z")

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I have a pipeline:  
a kafka cluster of 2 nodes (3 ZK nodes) -\> 2 logstash nodes -\> elastic cluster

I expected the 2 Logstash nodes to have almost equal load but the stats are very different from this expectation.

 ![29%20PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/c/9c4279f0c3b8dccdc3a4be3b56ae2cfc6ce890fc.png)

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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:** [February 1, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skew-in-logstash-ingestion/162955/2 "2019-02-01T12:28:34Z")

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