# Deletion of logs of filebeat client side
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletion-of-logs-of-filebeat-client-side/40671
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletion-of-logs-of-filebeat-client-side/40671 "2016-02-01T21:10:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sd\_karthik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sd_karthik)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletion-of-logs-of-filebeat-client-side/40671/1 "2016-02-01T21:10:25Z")
Is there a way where, logs on the source server are deleted after getting streamed. Like-- currently we have hourly logs on the source, which keeps rotating every hour. And currently I have Filebeats installed on these servers to stream all the logs to a central place and have an ignore\_older of 30m, which I believe filebeat will have an open handler till this time(ignore\_older).--I think this means if filebeat is down for more than ignorE\_older
How about deleting the log files? after making sure the whole log is successfully streamed?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletion-of-logs-of-filebeat-client-side/40671/2 "2016-02-01T21:15:34Z")
Beats cannot do this, given you are using something else to roll the logs already, you should be able to delete them with that.
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletion-of-logs-of-filebeat-client-side/40671/3 "2016-02-02T06:11:45Z")
Also have a look at this issue: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/714](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/714)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletion-of-logs-of-filebeat-client-side/40671/4 "2017-07-05T21:56:05Z")