# Zookeeper 5-10x audit-activity

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/zookeeper-5-10x-audit-activity/208223>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [November 17, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/zookeeper-5-10x-audit-activity/208223 "2019-11-17T14:14:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ethrbunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ethrbunny/32/34603_2.png) [@ethrbunny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethrbunny)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/zookeeper-5-10x-audit-activity/208223/1 "2019-11-17T14:14:51Z")

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Looking at the volume of traffic coming from auditbeat - seems that my 3 zookeeper nodes are creating 5-10x the amount of audit events of any other server. I've added this line which helped a fair bit:

```
- drop_event.when.equals.network.direction: outbound

```

Wondering if there are other settings that might help to limit the amount of audit traffic.

These nodes really aren't that busy.

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**Author:** ![adrisr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adrisr/32/25423_2.png) [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/zookeeper-5-10x-audit-activity/208223/2 "2019-11-26T12:50:03Z")

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Can you share your Auditbeat version and configuration in `auditbeat.yml` ?

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**Author:** ![ethrbunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ethrbunny/32/34603_2.png) [@ethrbunny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ethrbunny)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/zookeeper-5-10x-audit-activity/208223/3 "2019-12-05T12:42:21Z")

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Logs seem to indicate that its all the RPC work happening in zk. I disabled audits for that and it seems to have calmed down.

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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 26, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/zookeeper-5-10x-audit-activity/208223/4 "2019-12-26T12:42:22Z")

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