# Filebeat 5.0.0-alpha5 multiple harvesters for same file sending the same messages over and over

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-0-0-alpha5-multiple-harvesters-for-same-file-sending-the-same-messages-over-and-over/59866>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 6, 2016, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-0-0-alpha5-multiple-harvesters-for-same-file-sending-the-same-messages-over-and-over/59866 "2016-09-06T10:05:57Z")\
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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:** [October 10, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-0-0-alpha5-multiple-harvesters-for-same-file-sending-the-same-messages-over-and-over/59866/32 "2016-10-10T12:02:27Z")

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For everyone going through this Thread, we found the potential problem here: [Filebeat 5.0beta1 with kafka output: multiplication of log lines](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-0beta1-with-kafka-output-multiplication-of-log-lines/62513)

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