# Filebeat holding deleted files which consumes disk space in our production cluster very often, any permenant fix for this?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-holding-deleted-files-which-consumes-disk-space-in-our-production-cluster-very-often-any-permenant-fix-for-this/287560
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 25, 2021, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-holding-deleted-files-which-consumes-disk-space-in-our-production-cluster-very-often-any-permenant-fix-for-this/287560 "2021-10-25T09:44:54Z")
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### Author: ![swetha25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3be4f8/32.png) [@swetha25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swetha25)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-holding-deleted-files-which-consumes-disk-space-in-our-production-cluster-very-often-any-permenant-fix-for-this/287560/1 "2021-10-25T09:44:54Z")

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We don't want any data loss in the production cluster. And this issue is happening very often and we end up in almost full disk utilization every time. Kindly please help us with the solution.

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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: [November 22, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-holding-deleted-files-which-consumes-disk-space-in-our-production-cluster-very-often-any-permenant-fix-for-this/287560/2 "2021-11-22T11:45:19Z")

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