# Viewing actual download progress

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/viewing-actual-download-progress/2460>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/viewing-actual-download-progress/2460 "2020-09-17T15:24:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![eystein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e5b9ba/32.png) [@eystein](https://hub.mender.io/u/eystein)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 9:15pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/viewing-actual-download-progress/2460/4 "2020-09-18T21:15:40Z")

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Hello @kevlan,

Thanks for the feedback. The main reason this has not been supported (yet) is that it leads to a lot of communication overhead that rarely will be used.

For example if you have 10,000 devices, tracking the download progress of each and every one seems a bit wasteful. I do certainly understand it for smaller scale / individual diagnostics purposes though. The question is how to enable this when it matters without wasting resources in general… Any ideas? 🙂

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