# Filebeat causes duplicate entries / clearing up

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-causes-duplicate-entries-clearing-up/125274>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 22, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-causes-duplicate-entries-clearing-up/125274 "2018-03-22T21:49:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![bolivia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85e7bf/32.png) [@bolivia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bolivia)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-causes-duplicate-entries-clearing-up/125274/1 "2018-03-22T21:49:17Z")

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Good evening,

I have a problem with the data in the ELK sent to me by Filebeat. I now have loads of duplicate entries.

After configuring bulk\_max\_size to 1024, creating duplicate entries has stopped, but I'd like to clean up the index.

Could someone please help me here?

Best regards

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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:** [April 19, 2018, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-causes-duplicate-entries-clearing-up/125274/2 "2018-04-19T23:49:23Z")

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