# How to interpret filebeat logs?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-filebeat-logs/293524
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [January 5, 2022, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-filebeat-logs/293524 "2022-01-05T10:47:12Z")
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### Author:  [@hjazz6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hjazz6)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2022, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-filebeat-logs/293524/1 "2022-01-05T10:47:12Z")
Hi,
I'm running filebeat 7.14.0 to ingest Netflow data, which is then stored in Elasticsearch and viewed on Kibana. When I run "filebeat -e", I will see some logs generated by filebeat every 30s. The logs are similar to what on this [page](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-read-monitoring-lines-in-filebeat-logs/195501), but they are not exactly the same. For example, I see the parts below
```auto
"input":{"netflow":{"packets":{"received":12345}}}}
```
or
```auto
"input":{"netflow":{"flows":1234,"packets":{"dropped":2345,"received":12345}}}}
```
It seems like when there is only "received" in the log (first line), I don't get any data, but when there is "flows" (second line), then I'll see data on Kibana. Netflow data is definitely continuously coming in and presumably ingested by filebeat, even though I expect drops because the ingest rate is likely higher than what filebeat can handle (~2-4Gbps).
I would like to know how to interpret the logs so as to better understand what is going on, and calculate the drop rate.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-interpret-filebeat-logs/293524/2 "2022-02-02T12:48:07Z")
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