# FileBeat EOF Error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-eof-error/60882>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 19, 2016, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-eof-error/60882 "2016-09-19T12:38:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![il.bert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ac91a4/32.png) [@il.bert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/il.bert)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-eof-error/60882/29 "2016-10-10T08:52:05Z")

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after 2 days running, EOF came out also with the configuration without load\_balance.

this is the stats from kibana -\> I connected the filebeat log itself (it has been cut but the search is in kibana is "EOF")  
it seems that they appear especially during night (off-load period)

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/0/0e69607231c068958370076eccebee912aa251c6.png)

I just checkd: logs are always the same as above, nothing on logstash side, EOF and ignore\_older on FileBeat side (see topic [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-file-is-falling-under-ignore-older/61210/3](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-file-is-falling-under-ignore-older/61210/3) )

in filebeat i have lot of prospectors with this configuration

```
- input_type: log

  paths:
    - d:Logger\2
  exclude_lines: ["^\\s*$"]
  include_lines: ["^([a-z]|[A-Z])"]
  fields:
    catena: 11
  fields_under_root: true
  ignore_older: 10m
  close_inactive: 2m
  clean_inactive: 15m
  document_type: log2

```

general fb conf are the following

```
output.logstash:
  hosts: ["10.10.10.10"]
  template.name: "filebeat"
  template.path: "filebeat.template.json"
  template.overwrite: false

```

in LS i have the following

LS\_HEAP\_SIZE="8g"  
LS\_OPTS="-b 1000 -r --verbose"  
LS\_JAVA\_OPTS="{LS\_JAVA\_OPTS} -Djava.io.tmpdir={LS\_HOME} -Xms8g"

I've checked di JVM stats and they seems to be very good

LS1

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/a/a75bc8b4364004f8cdc05305beb9748885afda3d.png)

LS2

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/3/3985d1f934fcd01246cdc1677879842570e66ac1.png)

LS3

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/6/6e9431cdba8ad2bf345d8b7544457d9d1bb60d66.png)

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