# Robot moving time monitoring

**URL:** <https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/robot-moving-time-monitoring/18783>\
**Category:** Technical Questions\
**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/robot-moving-time-monitoring/18783 "2022-01-20T01:52:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@alex5](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/alex5)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/robot-moving-time-monitoring/18783/1 "2022-01-20T01:52:36Z")

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Is there an easy way to record for how much time robot has been actually moving over its life cycle, or some other defined time period? I have a customer who wants to use it as a metric of productivity for a particular process.

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**Author:** ![fujikit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/fujikit/32/6042_2.png) [@fujikit](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/fujikit)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/robot-moving-time-monitoring/18783/2 "2022-01-20T07:44:48Z")

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It is possible to record the variable of robot programs by using daemon service(XML-RPC).

For example, you can implement the feature to record to csv files into xmlrpc.