# How to measure the performance of logstash with logstash-perftool gem?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-measure-the-performance-of-logstash-with-logstash-perftool-gem/36042>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 1, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-measure-the-performance-of-logstash-with-logstash-perftool-gem/36042 "2015-12-01T12:35:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vachan.Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ccd318/32.png) [@Vachan.Da](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vachan.Da)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-measure-the-performance-of-logstash-with-logstash-perftool-gem/36042/1 "2015-12-01T12:35:35Z")

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After installing the logstash-perftool on the machine, how do you make it test the custom logstash configuration?

I'm running logstash 1.4.2 for indexing and ES 1.4.4 to store.

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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, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-measure-the-performance-of-logstash-with-logstash-perftool-gem/36042/2 "2017-07-06T05:20:36Z")

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