# Configure filebeat to control how often logs are read and to ignore old logs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-filebeat-to-control-how-often-logs-are-read-and-to-ignore-old-logs/178332
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [April 24, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-filebeat-to-control-how-often-logs-are-read-and-to-ignore-old-logs/178332 "2019-04-24T21:22:05Z")
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### Author:  [@thadc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thadc)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-filebeat-to-control-how-often-logs-are-read-and-to-ignore-old-logs/178332/1 "2019-04-24T21:22:05Z")
Hi,
I have a setup in my filebeat.yml roughly as follows:
filebeat.propectors:
- type: log
paths:
- /tmp/log/typeA\*.log
pipeline: "pipelineA"
fields\_under\_root: true
fields:
logtype: TYPEA
- type: log
paths:
- /tmp/log/typeB\*.log
pipeline: "pipelineB"
fields\_under\_root: true
fields:
logtype: TYPEB
- type: log
paths:
- /tmp/log/typeC\*.log
pipeline: "pipelineC"
fields\_under\_root: true
fields:
logtype: TYPEC
It works fine but I need control on reading. I would like to be able to control the input so that some logs are read more frequently than (e.g. for pipelineC, read only once a day, but for pipelineA, read every minute). I would also like to be able to ignore logs older than a certain age (e.g. ignore logs older than 3 days).
I would be grateful for any ideas. Thank you
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### Author:  [@thadc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thadc)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-filebeat-to-control-how-often-logs-are-read-and-to-ignore-old-logs/178332/2 "2019-04-26T15:55:58Z")
I will answer this myself:
filebeat.propectors:
- type: log
paths:
- /tmp/log/typeA\*.log
ignore\_older: 72h
scan\_frequency: 10s
pipeline: "pipelineA"
fields\_under\_root: true
fields:
logtype: TYPEA
- type: log
paths:
- /tmp/log/typeB\*.log
ignore\_older: 72h
scan\_frequency: 10s
pipeline: "pipelineB"
fields\_under\_root: true
fields:
logtype: TYPEB
- type: log
paths:
- /tmp/log/typeC\*.log
ignore\_older: 72h
scan\_frequency: 10s
pipeline: "pipelineC"
fields\_under\_root: true
fields:
logtype: TYPEC
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-filebeat-to-control-how-often-logs-are-read-and-to-ignore-old-logs/178332/3 "2019-05-24T15:55:59Z")
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