# Filebeat can real-time collection?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-can-real-time-collection/98545>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 28, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-can-real-time-collection/98545 "2017-08-28T10:51:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![netdata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@netdata](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/netdata)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-can-real-time-collection/98545/1 "2017-08-28T10:51:59Z")

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i set some parm but i can't realize real-time collection

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-can-real-time-collection/98545/2 "2017-08-28T10:57:06Z")

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Can you elaborate more on what you are or are not seeing?

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**Author:** ![netdata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@netdata](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/netdata)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-can-real-time-collection/98545/3 "2017-08-28T14:31:38Z")

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filebeat.yml ：  
flow is my configuration file:

- input\_type: log
# Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
paths:
  - /usr/home/tecent.log  
fields:  
production: tecent  
server: app  
application: log  
logname: tecent.log  
scan\_frequency: "1s"  
backoff: "1s"  
max\_backoff: "2s"  
harvester\_buffer\_size: 163840  
tail\_files: true  
logstash server(out put logfile) can't read real-time log

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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:** [September 25, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-can-real-time-collection/98545/4 "2017-09-25T14:31:57Z")

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