# Generate Input Plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generate-input-plugin/176863>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generate-input-plugin/176863 "2019-04-15T09:00:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Jasonespo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Jasonespo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jasonespo)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generate-input-plugin/176863/1 "2019-04-15T09:00:55Z")

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Hi all,

I haven't found any documentation on this. Are there any parameters you can add to the generate input plugin so that it sends X amount of logs / second or minute.

I am going to assume the default (as below), sends the X amount of logs as quick as it can? The idea is, I want to load test our pipeline which includes: collector, normaliser, AWS env, etc.

```
input {
  generator {
    lines => [
      "line 1",
      "line 2",
      "line 3"
    ]
    # Emit all lines 3 times.
    count => 3
  }
}
```

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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 13, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generate-input-plugin/176863/2 "2019-05-13T09:01:00Z")

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