# Filebeat is not closig the file descriptor, when the file is deleted/renamed
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-closig-the-file-descriptor-when-the-file-is-deleted-renamed/115819
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [January 17, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-closig-the-file-descriptor-when-the-file-is-deleted-renamed/115819 "2018-01-17T04:00:03Z")
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### Author:  [@swethamahesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/swethamahesh)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-closig-the-file-descriptor-when-the-file-is-deleted-renamed/115819/1 "2018-01-17T04:00:04Z")
Hi,
We didnt had any conclusion on the file descriptor is hanging.
FYI: [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-closig-the-file-descriptor-once-the-file-is-deleted-](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-closig-the-file-descriptor-once-the-file-is-deleted-)
renamed/104077
Request to provide some solution on how to go about the file descriptor being hanged.
Thanks,
Swetha. M
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### Author:  [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-closig-the-file-descriptor-when-the-file-is-deleted-renamed/115819/2 "2018-01-17T10:24:14Z")
Hi @swethamahesh,
Could you share the logs of filebeat for the period where you do the file renaming? Please run it with these parameters: `-d prospector -v`
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-closig-the-file-descriptor-when-the-file-is-deleted-renamed/115819/3 "2018-01-19T16:42:51Z")
Filebeat is not closing files, cause it hasn't finished processing them yet. There are a number of [close options](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-filebeat-options.html#close-options) per prospector. If filebeat is blocked by stale outputs, the most aggressive is `close_timeout`, which force kills a harvester (file reading process) every N seconds.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-closig-the-file-descriptor-when-the-file-is-deleted-renamed/115819/4 "2018-02-16T16:43:25Z")
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