# How can I know the bitrate on a live stream published to wowza?

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-know-the-bitrate-on-a-live-stream-published-to-wowza/49444>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [August 16, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-know-the-bitrate-on-a-live-stream-published-to-wowza/49444 "2017-08-16T04:56:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silicon\_Valley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Silicon\_Valley](https://community.wowza.com/u/Silicon_Valley)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-know-the-bitrate-on-a-live-stream-published-to-wowza/49444/1 "2017-08-16T04:56:22Z")

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I have a live RTMP stream published to wowza which can come at any bitrate.

I need to be able to know the incoming bitrate of the stream to generate multiple bitrates for segmentation. e.g RTMP stream is incoming at 1000 kbps (if i can read it on wowza, then i can further chunk it as bitrate/2 and bitrate/4).

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**Author:** ![Denis\_SA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@Denis\_SA](https://community.wowza.com/u/Denis_SA)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-know-the-bitrate-on-a-live-stream-published-to-wowza/49444/2 "2017-08-16T08:53:33Z")

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Hello, use access to REST API to get stream properties at easy xml format. Then you can do anything with stream using transcoder.