# How to know when Logstash finished parsing?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-when-logstash-finished-parsing/39470>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 18, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-when-logstash-finished-parsing/39470 "2016-01-18T17:14:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Rajeev\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Rajeev\_Gaurav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rajeev_Gaurav)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-when-logstash-finished-parsing/39470/1 "2016-01-18T17:14:06Z")

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Hi,

I am currently working in a program where I need to know whether log stash completely loaded the data or not. For this, I am using an idea in which I want to know the idea of the index before and after some minutes .So kindly let me know how can I achieve this programmatically. Also let me know if you have any better optimized idea of doing the above work.

Thanks and Best Regards,  
Rajeev

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-when-logstash-finished-parsing/39470/2 "2016-01-18T18:22:25Z")

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Assuming you're using a file input see below.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33143437/logstash-parsing-progress-bar>

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-know-when-logstash-finished-parsing/39470/3 "2017-07-06T05:15:20Z")

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