# Logstah throttle filter dropping messages indefinitely
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstah-throttle-filter-dropping-messages-indefinitely/64585
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 1, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstah-throttle-filter-dropping-messages-indefinitely/64585 "2016-11-01T16:11:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@rcanzanese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rcanzanese)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstah-throttle-filter-dropping-messages-indefinitely/64585/1 "2016-11-01T16:11:49Z")
Trying to use the throttle plugin in logstash to drop messages if I am receiving them at too high a rate. My goal is to:
> drop excess messages if more than 100 received in a 10 second window
To accomplish this, I use the config below, but it doesn't do what I expected. Instead, when I start logstash, it allows the first 100 messages through and then throttles the rest indefinitely -- all the messages received after the first 100 are dropped. How do I accomplish the goal above?
logstash 2.4.0
throttle 4.0.1
```
filter {
throttle {
after_count => 100
period => 10
key => "%{type}"
add_tag => "throttled"
}
if "throttled" in [tags] {
drop { }
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@jsvd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsvd)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 10:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstah-throttle-filter-dropping-messages-indefinitely/64585/2 "2016-11-02T10:14:03Z")
are you using multiple workers (-w \> 1) ?
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### Author:  [@rcanzanese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rcanzanese)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstah-throttle-filter-dropping-messages-indefinitely/64585/3 "2016-11-02T15:26:55Z")
Yes, using multiple workers.
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### Author:  [@Thomas\_Schneider](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thomas_Schneider)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstah-throttle-filter-dropping-messages-indefinitely/64585/4 "2017-01-19T12:12:05Z")
+1
Same Question here
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstah-throttle-filter-dropping-messages-indefinitely/64585/5 "2017-07-06T04:29:16Z")