# Can you exclude subfolder from being crawled completely in filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-you-exclude-subfolder-from-being-crawled-completely-in-filebeat/381127>\
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**Created:** [August 19, 2025, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-you-exclude-subfolder-from-being-crawled-completely-in-filebeat/381127 "2025-08-19T08:25:19Z")\
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Hello @WERTYASDFGH

Welcome to the community!!

As per below blog try without using ^ as you are providing absolute path :

> [@Regex not worked with filebeat](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-not-worked-with-filebeat/351901):
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> Hi Dear, I'm trying to exclude any files starting with gc but below regex did not work and regex is verified, myfilebeat version is :8.3.2 filebeat.inputs: # Each - is an input. Most options can be set at the input level, so # you can use different inputs for various configurations. # Below are the input specific configurations. # filestream is an input for collecting log messages from files. - type: filestream # Unique ID among all inputs, an ID is required. id: my-filestream-id # …

Thanks!!

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