# What is Event in Logstash **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [December 11, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-event-in-logstash/160307 "2018-12-11T07:05:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Varun\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/varun_s/32/48294_2.png) [@Varun\_S](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Varun_S)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-event-in-logstash/160307/1 "2018-12-11T07:05:23Z")
What is a event in Logstash. Whether it is a 1 record or 1 file? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-event-in-logstash/160307/2 "2018-12-11T07:06:45Z")
A Logstash event is typically one record or line. ---
**Author:** ![Varun\_S](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/varun_s/32/48294_2.png) [@Varun\_S](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Varun_S)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-event-in-logstash/160307/3 "2018-12-11T07:12:41Z")
Hi Christain, In my case. I placed a file containing 100 records. Filebeat collected the file and pushed it to logstash. The monitoring in the xpack shows that 10 events/sec for logstash emitted rate. But it should be 100 events/sec right? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-event-in-logstash/160307/4 "2019-01-08T07:12:47Z")
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