# Logstash scheduling for every one hour

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-scheduling-for-every-one-hour/79411
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 21, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-scheduling-for-every-one-hour/79411 "2017-03-21T12:27:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![leenanarmeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@leenanarmeta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leenanarmeta)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-scheduling-for-every-one-hour/79411/1 "2017-03-21T12:27:50Z")

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Hi, EveryOne  
how can i schedule logstash for every hour and for every 6 hours.......?

Regads  
N Leena

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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: [March 21, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-scheduling-for-every-one-hour/79411/2 "2017-03-21T12:30:07Z")

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It depends, What kind of inputs do you have?

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### Author: ![leenanarmeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@leenanarmeta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leenanarmeta)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-scheduling-for-every-one-hour/79411/3 "2017-03-21T13:22:49Z")

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jdbc input

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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: [March 21, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-scheduling-for-every-one-hour/79411/4 "2017-03-21T13:42:49Z")

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Then use that input's schedule feature.

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### Author: ![leenanarmeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@leenanarmeta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leenanarmeta)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-scheduling-for-every-one-hour/79411/5 "2017-03-22T05:15:40Z")

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actually iam using schedule feature for evey one mintute ....  
schedule =\> "\* \* \* \* \*"  
i dont know cron expression for every one hour .....can you tell me cron expression to schedule for every one hour or 6 hours

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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: [March 22, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-scheduling-for-every-one-hour/79411/6 "2017-03-22T05:20:25Z")

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The notation used by the jdbc plugin is standard cron notation so you can find many examples online, e.g. this one: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6423532/how-to-run-cron-job-every-2-hours](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6423532/how-to-run-cron-job-every-2-hours)

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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: [April 19, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-scheduling-for-every-one-hour/79411/7 "2017-04-19T05:20:52Z")

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