# Plugin for bandwidth

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-for-bandwidth/42026>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [February 17, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-for-bandwidth/42026 "2016-02-17T12:52:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![marcmga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@marcmga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marcmga)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-for-bandwidth/42026/1 "2016-02-17T12:52:51Z")

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Hello,

I searched but not found if theres a beat for sending information about bandwidth of a server.  
I found that collectd can take informaticon about traffic of an interface in octets, which i don't know what is actually.

I'm sure there's a way to get information about bandiwdht use of an intreface.

Thanks

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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:** [February 17, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-for-bandwidth/42026/2 "2016-02-17T14:56:01Z")

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There is an open PR to packetbeat to provide flow information: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/756](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/756)

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**Author:** ![marcmga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@marcmga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marcmga)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-for-bandwidth/42026/3 "2016-02-17T16:08:32Z")

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Hi ruffin,  
As i understand, there's nthing to do right now?

Maybe i can parse that information if i know how to send trought collectd or beats, taking the content of a file as a number.  
Does someone knows how to parse log as a number? I mean, i calculate the bandwidth and interface is consuming, how to parse that data as a number to logstash.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![marcmga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@marcmga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marcmga)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-for-bandwidth/42026/4 "2016-02-18T11:13:58Z")

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I reply to myself,

Finally i done it.  
If someone is interested, i save in a file bytes consumed per second. Then with grok (i didn't know that) i use type NUMBER, so elastic can take it as a number field. Then in kibana i can show the consumption of network.

Thankssss

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-for-bandwidth/42026/5 "2016-02-18T17:01:12Z")

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This sounds over-complicated. Use-cases sounds like good candidate for topbeat or even better metricbeats.

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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, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plugin-for-bandwidth/42026/6 "2017-07-05T21:55:35Z")

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