# 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")\
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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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