Exclude files to be processed

Elastic Stack Beats
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I currently use Logstash to read files in my directory. I use the input from file plugin and use path/to/logs/*.log then use exclude statements to exclude the logs I don't want transported into my ES cluster.

Is there a way to exclude logs with filebeat? I want to test using filebeat in my environment but I don't want to import all files in that directory into my test cluster. Can this be done?

Thanks

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Currently this is not possible with Filebeat, but we track this as an enhancement request and plan it for the next release.

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Thank you