# Logstash Event Size

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-event-size/269972>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 13, 2021, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-event-size/269972 "2021-04-13T07:43:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-event-size/269972/2 "2021-04-13T15:15:28Z")

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It really depends what you mean by the 'size of an entire event'. See [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-to-kafka-server/197710/6) and [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/event-get-message-bytesize/267004/2).

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