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Why isn’t Filebeat collecting lines from my file?edit
Filebeat might be incorrectly configured or unable to send events to the output. To resolve the issue:
- Make sure the config file specifies the correct path to the file that you are collecting. See Step 2: Configuring Filebeat for more information.
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Verify that the file is not older than the value specified by
ignore_older
. By default, Filebeat stops reading files that are older than 24 hours. You can change this behavior by specifying a different value forignore_older
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Make sure that Filebeat is able to send events to the configured output. Run Filebeat in debug mode to determine whether it’s publishing events successfully:
./filebeat -c config.yml -e -d "*"