Hello, I'm using filebeat (6.4.3) to ship Apache logs (and some system ones) directly to ES. Currently Filebeat is configured by using apache2 module and wildcard path setting, pointing to a directory with near 16 000 log files (not all of them are constant updating). The event intensity is about…

Constant high cpu usage from Filebeat

nskerl (Nathan Skerl) February 12, 2019, 6:00pm 2

Just wanted to ref my own issue here, as I saw a very similar CPU pattern with a high number of current files. I see the same in your output. I was able to resolve my CPU issue by reducing the number of stale files in the registry, but I still don't understand why that helped.

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