# Identify new log entries during the last hour

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-new-log-entries-during-the-last-hour/27083>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 9, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-new-log-entries-during-the-last-hour/27083 "2015-08-09T06:53:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Markus\_Korn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b38774/32.png) [@Markus\_Korn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Markus_Korn)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-new-log-entries-during-the-last-hour/27083/1 "2015-08-09T06:53:06Z")

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Hi,  
is there a easy way to identify log messages which are new entries during the last hour?

something similar to significant for last hour, but for a more "generalized" message, so without values in the message like ip addresses, pid ...

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-new-log-entries-during-the-last-hour/27083/2 "2015-08-09T22:23:11Z")

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You could do this with a query to ES, but it'd probably be difficult.

What's the use case?

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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, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-new-log-entries-during-the-last-hour/27083/3 "2017-07-06T05:32:29Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 5:32am UTC