# Filebeat has to be restarted to send logs to elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-has-to-be-restarted-to-send-logs-to-elasticsearch/87330>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 27, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-has-to-be-restarted-to-send-logs-to-elasticsearch/87330 "2017-05-27T09:06:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![sasanka\_mourya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@sasanka\_mourya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sasanka_mourya)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-has-to-be-restarted-to-send-logs-to-elasticsearch/87330/6 "2017-05-27T18:59:19Z")

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Well that had some effect. I reduced the scan\_frequency and it doubled the thoroughput. Thanks for the help @thiago.

If possible have a look at another issue that i've been facing. Here is the link  
[Filebeat in windows is unable to send logs to logstash in Ubuntu server](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-windows/87344)

Thanks in advance.

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