# File beat configuration to ship CSV file to logstash

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beat-configuration-to-ship-csv-file-to-logstash/57172
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [August 4, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beat-configuration-to-ship-csv-file-to-logstash/57172 "2016-08-04T04:50:37Z")
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### Author: ![theiamdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@theiamdude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theiamdude)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beat-configuration-to-ship-csv-file-to-logstash/57172/1 "2016-08-04T04:50:37Z")

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Hi all,  
I am trying to ship CSV file to my logstash instance and every time I start the process it get's stuck at 2016/08/04 04:38:18.693034 log.go:113: INFO Harvester started for file: ../logs/ldap-access.csv

It works file if I just send a nomal log file, but for some reason the CSV file does not ship with no obvious errors.

Here is my filebeat configuration:

> <https://gist.github.com/theiamdude/5825885a853037ba6e30c907ca893635>

The logs I am getting are:

> <https://gist.github.com/theiamdude/4978a61a73babd5a32ce417856d17ab0>

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,  
M.C

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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: [August 8, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beat-configuration-to-ship-csv-file-to-logstash/57172/2 "2016-08-08T08:09:49Z")

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Can you share some content of your csv log file? does it have newlines inside? As you have debug enabled, I would expect some more output after a few seconds.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beat-configuration-to-ship-csv-file-to-logstash/57172/3 "2016-08-25T04:50:42Z")

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