# Filebeat doesn\`t collect logs from Kubernetes cronjobs **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [December 7, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-doesn-t-collect-logs-from-kubernetes-cronjobs/257859 "2020-12-07T13:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![malcolm666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/malcolm666/32/69835_2.png) [@malcolm666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malcolm666)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-doesn-t-collect-logs-from-kubernetes-cronjobs/257859/1 "2020-12-07T13:50:27Z")
Hi. I use filebeat 7.6.1 and k8s autodiscovery that works good for each pod. Example: ```auto filebeat.autodiscover: providers: - type: kubernetes templates: - condition: or: - equals: kubernetes.namespace: cis - equals: kubernetes.namespace: cicada ``` But filebeat doesn't collect the output from k8s cronjob. I configured the cronjob which prints some python output but this output isn't appeared in kibana. I found similar issue - [Filebeat isn`t collecting logs of short living containers like cronjobs](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-isn-t-collecting-logs-of-short-living-containers-like-cronjobs/254984) But there is no answer. I added sleep command - still no output in kibana. The logs in filebeat: ```auto 2020-12-07T13:51:05.724Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:145 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": 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2020-12-07T13:52:05.989Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349120-5t2np_cicada_cicada-uiapi-78192c420e0900b49d854f393810db97c3ffabeb6b3e8a28c7ca3d62cd36a828.log 2020-12-07T13:53:05.768Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349180-wzg9h_cicada_cicada-uiapi-75d4c468d8daf60210bfc8e50c95ed532b4a9c5771870a1c9a017c59c7af046b.log 2020-12-07T13:54:08.310Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349240-848nk_cicada_cicada-uiapi-4fe3f1c460ac5756034b44e35dd212601fa742bb46b2977cd7b724c840ab224c.log 2020-12-07T13:55:07.795Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349300-hpr72_cicada_cicada-uiapi-20409882c16bf648d118918e1340c56424edd8f587c1efbfdbee6207ab098dff.log 2020-12-07T13:56:08.722Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349360-qntnp_cicada_cicada-uiapi-47ddc90a8db1d8dad2d003a0fcfbbc90e2a15f5775d846b341a05fb4c5ae75e6.log 2020-12-07T13:57:09.705Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349420-rjl46_cicada_cicada-uiapi-473fd934fc8cf1bb2b6b984a383ba2124a000f0fefb265957cdcc1c4d913ceb2.log 2020-12-07T13:58:10.098Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349480-cgkff_cicada_cicada-uiapi-746ec4eafe414cdda3e69ce19f0cf6678373976a5ef1fdc583aa6d5c55d3439f.log 2020-12-07T13:59:10.493Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349540-sp8tn_cicada_cicada-uiapi-78e4055bd8cd71e5a08d8fcd01889ab6fa70f2a504e7586482423d843b369a6c.log 2020-12-07T14:00:11.296Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349600-4ttwt_cicada_cicada-uiapi-1c7918ac5afaa4af12b6d95435d780baefc830e382fab2c80ca55b0f1811831f.log 2020-12-07T14:01:12.079Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349660-r257b_cicada_cicada-uiapi-d121c741226657f1d239c2f5172cd6287f9048e2c608187497388b2246c61c56.log 2020-12-07T14:02:12.774Z INFO log/harvester.go:297 Harvester started for file: /var/log/containers/cicada-uiapi-1607349720-zdgp5_cicada_cicada-uiapi-f76a3429ce20fc2e7b794901a29d8a00870a351ef24702fa1b0fc03efd807002.log ``` As you see the harvester is started for cicada-uiapi-\* pod but no output in kibana ☹ UPD: sometimes the cronjob output are logged in elasticsearch but not for each pod of cronjob. I have cronjob that runs pods each minute. For example, it launched 10 pods. And may be only from the 4th pod we will get the output to elasticsearch. Please, help. ---
**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-doesn-t-collect-logs-from-kubernetes-cronjobs/257859/2 "2020-12-08T18:14:02Z")
Hey @malcolm666, I think this is related to this known issue: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/22718](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/22718) ---
**Author:** ![malcolm666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/malcolm666/32/69835_2.png) [@malcolm666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malcolm666)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-doesn-t-collect-logs-from-kubernetes-cronjobs/257859/3 "2020-12-09T07:06:06Z")
Thanks for your answer. Finally I solved my issue. My solution: - as it was python app I forgot to add PYTHONUNBUFFERED=true variable. I added this var to cronjob - added 10s timeout to python app after all code was launched. As I understood filebeat didn't have time to collect the output from short-lived pods. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-doesn-t-collect-logs-from-kubernetes-cronjobs/257859/4 "2021-01-06T09:06:07Z")
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