# How do I implement an alert for packet loss?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-implement-an-alert-for-packet-loss/333425>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [May 15, 2023, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-implement-an-alert-for-packet-loss/333425 "2023-05-15T08:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Waruguru\_Joyce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/waruguru_joyce/32/120526_2.png) [@Waruguru\_Joyce](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Waruguru_Joyce)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-implement-an-alert-for-packet-loss/333425/1 "2023-05-15T08:31:01Z")

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I need to implement an alert for packet loss. I have a dashboard in place and the remaining bit is coming up with a rule for checking on packets loss in and out.....

Any leads on how to go about it.

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**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 15, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-implement-an-alert-for-packet-loss/333425/2 "2023-05-15T20:37:21Z")

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Hi @Waruguru_Joyce

Welcome to the community!

What version are you on?

Perhaps take a look at this post from a while back might give you some ideas...

In short you should be able to visualize and alert on packet loss

> [@Measure network jitter and packet retransmits/drops](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/measure-network-jitter-and-packet-retransmits-drops/272946/1):
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> I am working on an Elastic Stack that will be used to measure network activity in a testbed for various pieces of equipment. My current hurdle is around measuring jitter and packet retransmits and drops. Has anyone used one of the existing beats, with or without aggregation or other processing methods, to successfully measure these items? Even if it's something like a script that dumps data into a log file that's then pushed by filebeat into the stack, that would be a phenomenally helpful thi…

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**Author:** ![Waruguru\_Joyce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/waruguru_joyce/32/120526_2.png) [@Waruguru\_Joyce](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Waruguru_Joyce)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-implement-an-alert-for-packet-loss/333425/3 "2023-05-16T05:27:31Z")

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Hello and thankyou for your reply

Am using logstash and am on version 8.0.

So I have the dashboard in place through the logs but I want to implement a rule that check if there are packet lost between the source and destination.

Although yesterday I saw that **system.network.packet.drop** Condition works fine.

And thankyou very much.

Regards,

Joyce

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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:** [June 13, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-implement-an-alert-for-packet-loss/333425/4 "2023-06-13T05:27:40Z")

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