# Message Audits

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-audits/51277>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 30, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-audits/51277 "2016-05-30T06:59:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-audits/51277/1 "2016-05-30T06:59:27Z")

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Hi,  
Does filebeat keep track of how many messages it sends over a period? Can this be sent as metrics so that some kind of audit of message count received vs message count sent can be performed?

Regards,  
David

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2016, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-audits/51277/2 "2016-05-30T09:01:03Z")

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Libbeat (which is the shared library behind filebeat) does some tracking and message counting if -httpprof is enabled. These metrics are currently mainly for debugging purpose. We have some plans to add some more monitoring which would include this kind of data: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/463](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/463)

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/message-audits/51277/3 "2017-07-05T21:51:24Z")

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