# Filebeat not scanning after input of ignore\_older

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-scanning-after-input-of-ignore-older/190905>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 17, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-scanning-after-input-of-ignore-older/190905 "2019-07-17T07:51:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kwiskas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f04885/32.png) [@Kwiskas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kwiskas)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-scanning-after-input-of-ignore-older/190905/1 "2019-07-17T07:51:27Z")

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Hi there

On my company we have a server that has a huge amount of logs because of a lot of scheduled jobs and a few memory. So when filebeat turns up to collect em it takes all RAM to do so.

So the idea i had is to scan only the recent files on it. Then i put on filebeat.yml ignore\_older: 15m and scan\_frequency: 1m

Since that, the amount of logs collected by filebeat went from 12.000 to 0

It does not scan anything. And the logs are updated every 10 mins!

I changed the ignore\_older: 2h same thing

The files to scan are huge so the filebeat.yml is configured like this for input type:  
paths:  
/opt/.../exploit/logs/job\_\*/ \*.log

What did I missed? is the fact that are several folders and it only check folder modification?

Does that ignore\_older option ignores new created log files?

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-scanning-after-input-of-ignore-older/190905/2 "2019-07-17T11:21:25Z")

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Hi @Kwiskas and welcome to discuss 🙂

`ignore_older` shouldn't ignore new created files. Could you share your complete configuration?

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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:** [August 14, 2019, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-scanning-after-input-of-ignore-older/190905/3 "2019-08-14T11:21:30Z")

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