# Interpreting sincedb file **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [April 20, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/interpreting-sincedb-file/228802 "2020-04-20T07:47:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nages](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nages/32/46943_2.png) [@nages](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nages)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/interpreting-sincedb-file/228802/1 "2020-04-20T07:47:31Z")
I am seeing the following content in sincedb file `2934664528-52087-851968 0 0 11742951 1586411789.669 C:/demo/logs` From the documentation i can see that this is represent with 5 parameters [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.8/plugins-inputs-file.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.8/plugins-inputs-file.html) Last one bing the path of the file First one being inode number . The numbers seems to be very cryptic, is there any way to derive some meanuiful information out of this - like 1586411789.669 - what dates it represents , i know it is last active timestamp 2934664528-52087-851968 - what about this ? ---
**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/interpreting-sincedb-file/228802/2 "2020-04-20T15:38:39Z")
> [@nages](#): > > 1586411789.669 That is Thursday, April 9, 2020 5:56:29.669 AM. If you Google UNIX epoch conversion you should find a number of sites that will do the conversion for you. For the "inode" I would have to refer you to the [code](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-file/blob/master/lib/filewatch/winhelper.rb). Generally it is the volume serial, and the high and low parts of the [file index.](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/ns-fileapi-by_handle_file_information) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/interpreting-sincedb-file/228802/3 "2020-05-18T15:38:58Z")
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