Connection Filebeat - Kafka - how to add delay

Question

How do I add delays in trying to link a filebeat client to a Kafka'es broker? Without introducing a delay, in the event of a failure, filebeat clients very quickly retry to connect with brokers, which causes saturation of requests.

MariuszL

We can add the following parameters to the filebeat configuration:

metadata:   
 #Wait time between retries during leader elections. Default is 250ms.
   retry.backoff: 250ms
 #The number of seconds to wait before trying to republish to Kafka after a network error. After waiting backoff.init seconds, the Beat tries to republish. If the attempt fails, the backoff timer is increased exponentially up to backoff.max. After a successful publish, the backoff timer is reset. The default is 1s.
   backoff.init: 1s