# Filebeat only sends logs on restart

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-only-sends-logs-on-restart/37184>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [December 15, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-only-sends-logs-on-restart/37184 "2015-12-15T00:18:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sedward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sedward](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sedward)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-only-sends-logs-on-restart/37184/1 "2015-12-15T00:18:16Z")

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I've just got started using Filebeat with logstash and amazon's elasticsearch + kibana setup. Whenever I start/restart filebeat, all new logs are sent through and show up in my es server. However when new new logs come in, nothing is sent file filebeat is running. Is there anything I could be doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![Sedward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Sedward](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sedward)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-only-sends-logs-on-restart/37184/2 "2015-12-15T00:58:10Z")

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Solved. My fault. I still had the default elasticsearch output section in there.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-only-sends-logs-on-restart/37184/3 "2017-07-05T21:57:30Z")

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