# Does initial interval work on start up for google workspace module?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-initial-interval-work-on-start-up-for-google-workspace-module/300701
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** docker, filebeat
**Created:** [March 25, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-initial-interval-work-on-start-up-for-google-workspace-module/300701 "2022-03-25T13:29:05Z")
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### Author:  [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-initial-interval-work-on-start-up-for-google-workspace-module/300701/1 "2022-03-25T13:29:05Z")
Hello.
I would like to ask question for [google workspace module](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/7.17/filebeat-module-google_workspace.html#filebeat-module-google_workspace) .
Doc says , filebeat will poll up to `var.initial_interval` when the filebeat starts.
> It will poll events up to this time period when the module starts.
However, I have used [fresh docker image](https://hub.docker.com/layers/filebeat/elastic/filebeat/7.17.1/images/sha256-b0491ef0c9bb5c8ae315e450ba00d065fd4458f009ff7f61750830d82c8ba476?context=explore) and started up but only polled up to `var.interval` .
I have looked at [the code](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/v7.17.1/x-pack/filebeat/module/google_workspace/drive/config/config.yml#L20) and it seems that `var.initial_interval` is used as _default_ which is only used when [value is empty or the template parsing fails](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/7.17/filebeat-input-httpjson.html#_set) . Which I understood as `var.initial_interval` is not used unless something is wrong with _value_ .
Should I go with _the doc_ or should I trust the code ?
Thanks ,
Yu
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### Author:  [@legoguy1000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/legoguy1000)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-initial-interval-work-on-start-up-for-google-workspace-module/300701/2 "2022-03-29T12:38:33Z")
So the code shows that since the`.cursor.*` is empty when the coffee first runs it does use the initial interval to poll. Then the cursor is updated and is used for subsequent API calls.
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### Author:  [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-initial-interval-work-on-start-up-for-google-workspace-module/300701/3 "2022-03-30T10:11:06Z")
@legoguy1000
Thank you for the reply. Yeah your right. I was wrong.
Just tested again with DEBUG level log and confirmed that `var.initial_interval` is used.
```auto
2022-03-30T10:04:22.580Z DEBUG [input.httpjson-cursor.retryablehttp] go-retryablehttp@v0.6.6/client.go:504 performing request%!(EXTRA string=method, string=GET, string=url, *url.URL=https://www.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/drive?startTime=2022-03-26T10%3A04%3A22Z) {"id": "BBFA557C8D443451", "input_source": "https://www.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/drive", "input_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/drive"}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2022, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-initial-interval-work-on-start-up-for-google-workspace-module/300701/4 "2022-04-27T12:11:50Z")
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