# Graylog with UDP

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-with-udp/3215>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Created:** [November 20, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-with-udp/3215 "2017-11-20T07:40:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Srumith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Srumith](https://community.graylog.org/u/Srumith)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-with-udp/3215/1 "2017-11-20T07:40:37Z")

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Hi Team

Thinking of using Graylog with UDP input to push my application logs. Just wanted to confirm if there will be any data loss?

Please help me!

Thanks  
Srumith.

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**Author:** ![jochen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jochen/32/8_2.png) [@jochen](https://community.graylog.org/u/jochen)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-with-udp/3215/2 "2017-11-20T07:49:26Z")

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> [@Srumith](#):
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> Just wanted to confirm if there will be any data loss?

That highly depends on the quality and congestion of your network.

FWIW, UDP is a stateless protocol and GELF doesn’t support out-of-band confirmation of message reception, so theoretically there could be packets which have been lost on the way.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/graylog-with-udp/3215/3 "2017-12-04T07:49:27Z")

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