# Which type of Load Balancer for use with pool of fleet servers

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-type-of-load-balancer-for-use-with-pool-of-fleet-servers/347727
**Category:** Elastic Agent
**Created:** [November 22, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-type-of-load-balancer-for-use-with-pool-of-fleet-servers/347727 "2023-11-22T11:38:51Z")
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### Author: ![digital-thought](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@digital-thought](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/digital-thought)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-type-of-load-balancer-for-use-with-pool-of-fleet-servers/347727/1 "2023-11-22T11:38:51Z")

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I am deploying a pool of fleet servers to support my agents. As is recommended i am goi g to place these behind a load balancer and to have all agents communicate via the load balancer.

My initial thought is to go with a Network Load Balancer as apposed to an Application Load Balancer. Be interested if anyone thinks differently.

Also assuming a network load balancer is used, would you recommend a TCP pass through on port 8220 or TLS on port 8220 and issue a new cert for the load balancer?

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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: [December 20, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-type-of-load-balancer-for-use-with-pool-of-fleet-servers/347727/2 "2023-12-20T11:39:29Z")

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