# ERR File reading error. Stopping harvester. Error: EOF

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-file-reading-error-stopping-harvester-error-eof/34764>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 17, 2015, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-file-reading-error-stopping-harvester-error-eof/34764 "2015-11-17T07:58:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinod8427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@vinod8427](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinod8427)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-file-reading-error-stopping-harvester-error-eof/34764/7 "2015-11-17T09:23:03Z")

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Please see my response inline:

Is the above the end of your debug output?  
[Vinod]: Yes.  
Can you try to the most recent nightly build as it should have some better outputs?  
[Vinod]: I tried the latest nightly build and the output was the same  
Do you see any pattern when it stops reading?  
[Vinod]: The following is the preceeding message which appears before the aforementioned logs posted  
2015/11/17 07:15:34.125071 preprocess.go:91: DBG preprocessor forward  
2015/11/17 07:15:34.125144 output.go:103: DBG output worker: publish 178 events  
2015/11/17 07:15:36.269232 filebeat.go:133: DBG Events sent: 178  
2015/11/17 07:15:36.269308 registrar.go:99: DBG Registrar: processing 178 events  
2015/11/17 07:15:36.269415 registrar.go:135: DBG Write registry file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry  
Based on you your output above I assume filebeat has already processed a few 100 log files?  
[Vinod]: filebeat would have processed around 20 out of 32 log files. Each log file is around 20 MB.

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