# Measure network jitter and packet retransmits/drops

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/measure-network-jitter-and-packet-retransmits-drops/272946>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat, packetbeat, metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 13, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/measure-network-jitter-and-packet-retransmits-drops/272946 "2021-05-13T18:50:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/measure-network-jitter-and-packet-retransmits-drops/272946/1 "2021-05-13T18:50:14Z")

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I am working on an Elastic Stack that will be used to measure network activity in a testbed for various pieces of equipment.

My current hurdle is around measuring jitter and packet retransmits and drops.

Has anyone used one of the existing beats, with or without aggregation or other processing methods, to successfully measure these items?

Even if it's something like a script that dumps data into a log file that's then pushed by filebeat into the stack, that would be a phenomenally helpful thing to see how it's done.

Thank you for your time.

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