# A beat to count lines in a file?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-beat-to-count-lines-in-a-file/129060>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [April 23, 2018, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-beat-to-count-lines-in-a-file/129060 "2018-04-23T08:46:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulkeogh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@paulkeogh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paulkeogh)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-beat-to-count-lines-in-a-file/129060/1 "2018-04-23T08:46:51Z")

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Does this functionality exist today ?

If not, would the best solution be to write a metricbeat module ?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-beat-to-count-lines-in-a-file/129060/2 "2018-04-23T16:14:29Z")

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@paulkeogh Would Auditbeat's [file integrity module](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/master/auditbeat-module-file_integrity.html) would be ok for your use case?

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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:** [May 21, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-beat-to-count-lines-in-a-file/129060/3 "2018-05-21T18:14:33Z")

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