# Duplicate events with Filebeat on windows on service restart

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-events-with-filebeat-on-windows-on-service-restart/78743
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [March 15, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-events-with-filebeat-on-windows-on-service-restart/78743 "2017-03-15T16:27:03Z")
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### Author: ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-events-with-filebeat-on-windows-on-service-restart/78743/12 "2017-03-21T08:16:59Z")

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Ok, so in 5.2 we can "solve" the problem by telling the user to use option 2 or 3 for the path config and in 5.3 it should be solved already.

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