# How do we know logstash is reading from dead letter queue or not

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-know-logstash-is-reading-from-dead-letter-queue-or-not/199378>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 13, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-know-logstash-is-reading-from-dead-letter-queue-or-not/199378 "2019-09-13T07:24:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![yestoprince](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yestoprince/32/94122_2.png) [@yestoprince](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yestoprince)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-know-logstash-is-reading-from-dead-letter-queue-or-not/199378/1 "2019-09-13T07:24:40Z")

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Hi, I have added a input pipeline to read from dead queue then i restart the logstash and there is no error in logs but don't know if it is reading from dead queue or not. by the way there is no change in the size of dead queues.

Here is beats input conf

input {  
beats {  
port =\> 5044  
ssl =\> false  
}  
dead\_letter\_queue {  
path =\> "/var/lib/logstash/dead\_letter\_queue"  
commit\_offsets =\> true  
pipeline\_id =\> "main"  
}  
}

Please help ☹

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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:** [October 11, 2019, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-we-know-logstash-is-reading-from-dead-letter-queue-or-not/199378/2 "2019-10-11T07:24:41Z")

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