# Tuning up filebeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tuning-up-filebeat/159708
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 6, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tuning-up-filebeat/159708 "2018-12-06T10:29:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ErSumit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ErSumit)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tuning-up-filebeat/159708/1 "2018-12-06T10:29:48Z")
Filebeat is sending logs to logstash-\> elasticsearch. Increasing number of workers shows slight increase in events rate in monitoring at kibana.
Max how much I can increase number of workers. I read somewhere optimum number of workers is 3 to 5. Is it true?
```auto
hosts: ["loadbalancers-endpoint"]
ttl: 3s
worker: 5
loadbalance: true
pipelining: 0
```
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tuning-up-filebeat/159708/2 "2018-12-06T13:52:56Z")
Filebeat can be quite fast. When tuning it's a matter of tuning all services, Beats, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. Tuning needs can very much differ from environment to environment.
I'd recommend to read this [discussion](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-slow-improve-performance/144717), as it contains a many tips and good practices applied.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tuning-up-filebeat/159708/3 "2019-01-03T13:52:58Z")
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