# Zeek packet drops

**URL:** https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-packet-drops/5917
**Category:** Zeek
**Created:** [November 26, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-packet-drops/5917 "2019-11-26T11:33:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![venkatesh\_bandari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@venkatesh\_bandari](https://community.zeek.org/u/venkatesh_bandari)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2019, 11:33am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-packet-drops/5917/1 "2019-11-26T11:33:50Z")

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Hello team,

How to measure the packet loss on open source zeek

I see capstats which has nic drops .is this using if config rx\_dropped counter or different

Thanks  
Venkatesh

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### Author: ![Vlad\_Grigorescu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Vlad\_Grigorescu](https://community.zeek.org/u/Vlad_Grigorescu)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-packet-drops/5917/2 "2019-11-26T14:41:20Z")

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Try capture-loss: [https://docs.zeek.org/en/stable/scripts/policy/misc/capture-loss.zeek.html](https://docs.zeek.org/en/stable/scripts/policy/misc/capture-loss.zeek.html)

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/zeek-packet-drops/5917/3 "2022-05-06T15:46:54Z")

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