# Http\_poller response time of the requested URL

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-response-time-of-the-requested-url/47873>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 20, 2016, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-response-time-of-the-requested-url/47873 "2016-04-20T08:07:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![zhmq0124v](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f08c70/32.png) [@zhmq0124v](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zhmq0124v)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-response-time-of-the-requested-url/47873/1 "2016-04-20T08:07:25Z")

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Dear ELK funs,

I am playing with http\_poller plugin, and found runtime\_seconds in the returned metadata, does runtime\_seconds stand for the response time(first byte sent and last byte received) of the requested URL?  
I found its value is 0.109s while in my tomcat server log, time taken to process the request (%D) is 0.437s, so it seems it's not.  
So my question is what runtime\_seconds stands for and how to get performance(real response time) of the requested URL? Thanks.

Best Regards,  
Mingquan

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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:** [April 20, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-response-time-of-the-requested-url/47873/2 "2016-04-20T17:19:35Z")

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As I read the code `execution_time` really is the difference between the start time and the completion time of the request. (below) It's pretty easy to check by sniffing the network traffic.

> <https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-http_poller/blob/v2.0.6/lib/logstash/inputs/http_poller.rb#L152-L162>

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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, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-poller-response-time-of-the-requested-url/47873/3 "2017-07-06T05:01:24Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 5:01am UTC