# Calculating packet loss

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-packet-loss/274364>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [May 28, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-packet-loss/274364 "2021-05-28T17:01:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-packet-loss/274364/2 "2021-05-28T20:52:17Z")

</div>

Hi @svenvg93 Welcome to the community.

Perhaps Take a look [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/measure-network-jitter-and-packet-retransmits-drops/272946) thread it takes about network packet drops (which are collected by metricbeat) as well as some other topcs like Jitter etc.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-packet-loss/274364)._