# Filebeat not shipping files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-shipping-files/139781>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 12, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-shipping-files/139781 "2018-07-12T14:37:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![intrepid1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dbc845/32.png) [@intrepid1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/intrepid1)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-shipping-files/139781/1 "2018-07-12T14:37:49Z")

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I am migrating from a very old version of the logstash shipper to Filebeat but it won't enable my log prospector.

018-07-12T15:30:32.002+0100 INFO crawler/crawler.go:82 Loading and starting Prospectors completed. Enabled prospectors: 0

I just can see where the problem lies. The file exists, it is under 24 hours old and enabled is set to true. I am only outputting to Redis. Logstash and Elasticsearch have been commented out.

The important parts of my config are as follows:

- type: log

and I am outputting to Redis

output:  
redis:  
hosts: ["host:6380"]  
save\_topology: true  
redis.key: "list1"  
db: 0  
db\_topology: 1  
timeout: 5  
reconnect\_interval: 1

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**Author:** ![intrepid1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dbc845/32.png) [@intrepid1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/intrepid1)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-shipping-files/139781/2 "2018-07-13T07:28:17Z")

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I think I have solved it. It would be useful if it actually had a prospectors entry. When I added to following line in bold it worked. I can't really understand why it isn't there in the first place.

filebeat.inputs:

# Each - is an input. Most options can be set at the input level, so

# you can use different inputs for various configurations.

# Below are the input specific configurations.

**filebeat.prospectors:**

- type: log

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-shipping-files/139781/3 "2018-07-16T07:46:02Z")

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Unfortunately the formatting does not really make it visible what you changed. Please reformat and use 3 ticks before and after your config parts.

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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 13, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-shipping-files/139781/4 "2018-08-13T07:46:51Z")

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