# \[SOLVED\] Beats event metrics in logs: official explanation?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/solved-beats-event-metrics-in-logs-official-explanation/96604
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [August 10, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/solved-beats-event-metrics-in-logs-official-explanation/96604 "2017-08-10T11:57:12Z")
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### Author: ![mguiwin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mguiwin/32/6743_2.png) [@mguiwin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mguiwin)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/solved-beats-event-metrics-in-logs-official-explanation/96604/1 "2017-08-10T11:57:12Z")

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Hi,

I'd like to get an authoritative definition of libbeat metrics as they appear in logs:

- libbeat.es.call\_count.PublishEvents
- publish.events
- libbeat.es.published\_and\_acked\_events
- libbeat.publisher.published\_events

Is it a sign of an issue when the 3 last metrics are not equal to each other?

Also, why these metrics don't seem to appear altogether all the time? Example at line #2:

```
1. 2017-08-10T13:38:21+02:00 INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: libbeat.es.call_count.PublishEvents=192 libbeat.es.publish.read_bytes=1576181 libbeat.es.publish.write_bytes=62636550 libbeat.es.published_and_acked_events=434170 libbeat.publisher.published_events=786426

2. 2017-08-10T13:39:51+02:00 INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: libbeat.es.publish.read_bytes=2436637 libbeat.es.publish.write_bytes=9589446 libbeat.es.published_and_acked_events=675840

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Thanks,  
MG

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### Author: ![mguiwin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mguiwin/32/6743_2.png) [@mguiwin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mguiwin)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/solved-beats-event-metrics-in-logs-official-explanation/96604/3 "2017-08-17T11:43:32Z")

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Switching to `logging.metrics.period: 1s` makes it much easier to understand the difference between these metrics, and the meaning of their values....

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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: [September 14, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/solved-beats-event-metrics-in-logs-official-explanation/96604/4 "2017-09-14T11:44:16Z")

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