# Filebeat harvesting issue
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-harvesting-issue/48859
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [April 30, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-harvesting-issue/48859 "2016-04-30T13:33:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Ramesh\_Narasimhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramesh_Narasimhan)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-harvesting-issue/48859/1 "2016-04-30T13:33:25Z")
My filebeat configuration has been working fine. But it suddenly stopped working now. I have updated to the latest version of filebeat, restarted filebeat instance, restarted my application instance. but still no luck.filebeat; Version: 1.2.1
Filebeat log
```auto
DBG Disable stderr logging
DBG Initializing output plugins
INFO GeoIP disabled: No paths were set under output.geoip.paths
DBG ES Ping(url=http://x.x.x.x:9200, timeout=1m30s)
DBG Ping status code: 200
INFO Activated elasticsearch as output plugin.
DBG Create output worker
DBG No output is defined to store the topology. The server fields might not be filled.
INFO Publisher name: ip-x-x-x-x
INFO Flush Interval set to: 1s
INFO Max Bulk Size set to: 50
DBG create bulk processing worker (interval=1s, bulk size=50)
INFO Init Beat: filebeat; Version: 1.2.1
INFO filebeat sucessfully setup. Start running.
INFO Registry file set to: /var/lib/filebeat/registry
INFO Loading registrar data from /var/lib/filebeat/registry
DBG Set idleTimeoutDuration to 5s
DBG File Configs: [/var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log]
INFO Set ignore_older duration to 0
INFO Set close_older duration to 1h0m0s
INFO Set scan_frequency duration to 10s
INFO Input type set to: log
INFO Set backoff duration to 1s
INFO Set max_backoff duration to 10s
INFO force_close_file is disabled
INFO Starting spooler: spool_size: 2048; idle_timeout: 5s
DBG Waiting for 1 prospectors to initialise
INFO Starting prospector of type: log
DBG exclude_files: []
DBG scan path /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Check file for harvesting: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Start harvesting unknown file: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Same file as before found. Fetch the state and persist it.
DBG Resuming harvester on a previously harvested file: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG harvest: "/var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log" position:1073914596 (offset snapshot:0)
INFO Harvester started for file: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG File was truncated as offset (%!s(int64=1073914596)) > size (%!s(int64=418066380)). Begin reading file from offset 0: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
INFO File was truncated. Begin reading file from offset 0: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Registrar will re-save state for /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG No pending prospectors. Finishing setup
INFO All prospectors initialised with 2 states to persist
INFO Starting Registrar
INFO Start sending events to output
DBG scan path /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Check file for harvesting: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Update existing file for harvesting: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Not harvesting, file didn't change: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Flushing spooler because of timeout. Events flushed: 0
DBG Flushing spooler because of timeout. Events flushed: 0
DBG Start next scan
DBG scan path /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Check file for harvesting: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Update existing file for harvesting: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Not harvesting, file didn't change: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Flushing spooler because of timeout. Events flushed: 0
DBG Start next scan
DBG scan path /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Check file for harvesting: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Update existing file for harvesting: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Not harvesting, file didn't change: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log
DBG Flushing spooler because of timeout. Events flushed: 0
DBG End of file reached: /var/log/tomcat7/zkdcs.log; Backoff now.
```
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2016, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-harvesting-issue/48859/2 "2016-05-02T07:24:41Z")
Can you share some more details on what is not working anymore? Could you share your config file?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-harvesting-issue/48859/3 "2017-07-05T21:52:38Z")