# Duplicate items in elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [January 21, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-items-in-elasticsearch/39765 "2016-01-21T12:51:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nkoleff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d9b06d/32.png) [@nkoleff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nkoleff)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-items-in-elasticsearch/39765/1 "2016-01-21T12:51:30Z")
Hello, I'm using logstash forwarder to ship logs from centralized location to logstash servers and then to elasticsearch. Recently, I've found that I have the same documents but with different ids twice in my Kibana. its basically the exact event, indexed twice. Đ¢his is happening for all document types. What are the most common reasons for this? I know this could be coming from different sources, but what I can't imagine so far is how to recreate this issue. Any help would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-items-in-elasticsearch/39765/2 "2016-01-21T18:45:40Z")
Is logstash-forwarder for some reason rereading the same old files? ---
**Author:** ![nkoleff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d9b06d/32.png) [@nkoleff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nkoleff)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-items-in-elasticsearch/39765/3 "2016-01-27T07:48:46Z")
I am not sure, but I've noticed something - 2016/01/27 09:35:17.510424 registry rotate: rename of .logstash-forwarder.new to .logstash-forwarder - rename .logstash-forwarder.new .logstash-forwarder: no such file or directory ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-items-in-elasticsearch/39765/4 "2017-07-06T05:14:10Z")