# Filebeat penalty for unused log path inputs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-penalty-for-unused-log-path-inputs/147739>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-penalty-for-unused-log-path-inputs/147739 "2018-09-07T15:08:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![grantk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@grantk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grantk)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-penalty-for-unused-log-path-inputs/147739/1 "2018-09-07T15:08:33Z")

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I would like to use a common configuration for filebeats across servers, some of which may not have all apps installed. Can you quantify the performance/utilization penalty for paths that do not exist of type log?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-penalty-for-unused-log-path-inputs/147739/2 "2018-09-10T13:49:32Z")

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Hi @grantk 🙂

We do not have such tests but it will be very interesting if you perform them, keep us informed 🙂

From what I can tell you, the footprint left for a Beat that has no work to do is minimum. They'll perform the check at the specified interval but that's all.

Beats are built to very really lightweight and fast so that you don't realize that they are there 😉

Best regards

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**Author:** ![grantk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@grantk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grantk)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-penalty-for-unused-log-path-inputs/147739/3 "2018-09-10T14:09:23Z")

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Thanks @Mario_Castro I'll post here if and when I get to testing this scenario.

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**Author:** ![marcandre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@marcandre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marcandre)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-penalty-for-unused-log-path-inputs/147739/4 "2018-09-10T15:38:42Z")

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Hello,

I am really interested in this topic. I opened a ticket for something similar

> [@How do you deploy configuration file](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-deploy-configuration-file/147967):
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> Hello, I wonder how people deploy the beats configuration files to all their servers? Right now, I have a configuration file with all module enabled. It use puppet to send the files to all my nodes. It cause a lot of error for metricbeat because some of the module don't exist. Thank you,

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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:** [October 8, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-penalty-for-unused-log-path-inputs/147739/5 "2018-10-08T15:38:45Z")

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