# Filebeat does not read the large log file

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-does-not-read-the-large-log-file/155660
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [November 7, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-does-not-read-the-large-log-file/155660 "2018-11-07T06:36:15Z")
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### Author: ![guanghaofan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/guanghaofan/32/31153_2.png) [@guanghaofan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guanghaofan)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-does-not-read-the-large-log-file/155660/1 "2018-11-07T06:36:15Z")

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ELK: 6.4.2

one of a large file size is :2523,075,914 more than 2G. all the other files are consumed by filebeat, but left this one, and has no any record in the registry file to this log file.

thanks!

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### Author: ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-does-not-read-the-large-log-file/155660/2 "2018-11-07T13:45:16Z")

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Could you post your `filebeat.yml` (with any sensitive information masked)? And also run `filebeat -e -d "*"` to get debug logs and post that output here as well?

Thanks,

Shaunak

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### Author: ![guanghaofan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/guanghaofan/32/31153_2.png) [@guanghaofan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guanghaofan)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-does-not-read-the-large-log-file/155660/3 "2018-11-08T04:53:04Z")

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please close this ticket, it's found that the big log file is finally consumed by filebeat.  
thanks!

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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: [December 6, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-does-not-read-the-large-log-file/155660/4 "2018-12-06T04:53:09Z")

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