# How to determine Live Stream Bitrate?

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-determine-live-stream-bitrate/484
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [September 20, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-determine-live-stream-bitrate/484 "2011-09-20T16:57:12Z")
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### Author: ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-determine-live-stream-bitrate/484/1 "2011-09-20T16:57:12Z")

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Is there a way to determine the actual produced bitrate of a live stream coming from a flash applet? Let say I am streaming from flash at 12fps, 320x240, 90% quality and keyframe every 2 seconds. Can I determine the bitrate of that stream in Wowza side?

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### Author: ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-determine-live-stream-bitrate/484/2 "2011-09-21T11:26:11Z")

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Take a look at this example:

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-monitor-bandwidth-of-published-streams-modulelimitpublishedstreambandwidth](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-monitor-bandwidth-of-published-streams-modulelimitpublishedstreambandwidth)

```auto
IOPerformanceCounter perf = stream.getMediaIOPerformance();
Double bitrate = perf.getMessagesInBytesRate() * 8 * .001;
getLogger().info("Stream '" + stream.getName() + "' BitRate: " + Math.round(Math.floor(bitrate)) + "kbs");

```

Richard