# Question logstash | Events received vs Event emitted

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-logstash-events-received-vs-event-emitted/333219>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 11, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-logstash-events-received-vs-event-emitted/333219 "2023-05-11T15:20:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![ahmed\_charafouddine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ahmed_charafouddine/32/45129_2.png) [@ahmed\_charafouddine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ahmed_charafouddine)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-logstash-events-received-vs-event-emitted/333219/1 "2023-05-11T15:20:04Z")

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Hello,

On the monitoring part of my logstash instance, I see that I have 1.3b of events received against 784.7m events emitted. can the fact that I drop certain messages in my pipeline explain this phenomenon or is it really a loss of data?  
Thank you for your help

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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:** [June 8, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-logstash-events-received-vs-event-emitted/333219/2 "2023-06-08T15:20:05Z")

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