# Filebeat do not see file updates after a while

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-do-not-see-file-updates-after-a-while/34914
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [November 18, 2015, 10:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-do-not-see-file-updates-after-a-while/34914 "2015-11-18T10:08:52Z")
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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: [November 23, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-do-not-see-file-updates-after-a-while/34914/16 "2015-11-23T16:14:02Z")

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@ogauchard There is for the moment probably a quite simple solution. Increase ignore\_older to 24h or at least higher then the longest update frequency of your files. Can you try that out?

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