---
title: "Get Live Count"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/nodejs/v2/cloud-scale/data-streams/get-live-count/
description: "This page describes the method to retrieve the number of active subscribers connected to a Data Streams channel in your Node.js application with sample code snippets."
last_updated: 2026-08-13T11:41:55Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Get Live Count - API"
    url: /en/api/code-reference/cloud-scale/data-streams/get-live-count
  - name: "Data Streams"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/data-streams/introduction
---

# Get Live Count

[Catalyst Data Streams](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/data-streams/introduction/) allows you to track the number of active subscribers currently connected to a specific channel. This is useful for monitoring channel activity and implementing conditional logic based on subscriber presence.

The `datastreams` reference used in the code below is the [component instance](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/nodejs/v2/cloud-scale/data-streams/get-component-instance) created earlier.

### Track Active Subscribers

You can retrieve the live subscriber count by passing the channel ID to the `getLiveCount()` method. The promise returned here will be resolved to an object containing the count of active subscribers.

**Parameters Used**

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	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th class="w20p">Parameter Name</th>
			<th class="w20p">Data Type</th>
			<th class="w60p">Definition</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>`channelId`</td>
			<td>**String**</td>
			<td>A **Mandatory** parameter. Holds the unique ID of the channel.</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

```javascript
//Get the live subscriber count for a channel
const liveCount = await datastreams.getLiveCount(CRICKET_CHANNEL_ID);
```