# Speed limitations of filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/speed-limitations-of-filebeat/46818>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 8, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/speed-limitations-of-filebeat/46818 "2016-04-08T14:40:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/speed-limitations-of-filebeat/46818/6 "2016-04-11T15:47:08Z")

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have you tried to measure throughput in your processing chain as described here: [Filebeat sending data to Logstash seems too slow](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sending-data-to-logstash-seems-too-slow/37596/13) ?

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