# Filebeat removed, but still logging

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-removed-but-still-logging/255956>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 19, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-removed-but-still-logging/255956 "2020-11-19T09:32:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elitlogik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elitlogik/32/78920_2.png) [@Elitlogik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Elitlogik)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-removed-but-still-logging/255956/1 "2020-11-19T09:32:33Z")

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I wanted to uninstall Filebeat (since I'm not there yet), so I did `sudo yum remove filebeat`. Successful. However, there are still logs generted as below.

How come filebeat generate logs when it's uninstalled?

`2020-11-19T10:30:37.593+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:145 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cgroup":{"cpuacct":{"total":{"ns":97624973}}},"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":528960,"time":{"ms":73}},"total":{"ticks":877450,"time":{"ms":97},"value":877450},"user":{"ticks":348490,"time":{"ms":24}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":262144,"soft":1024},"open":22},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"c2156e88-26d1-4098-8abb-9880926222f2","uptime":{"ms":465750072}},"memstats":{"gc_next":40346336,"memory_alloc":21694880,"memory_total":7472541256},"runtime":{"goroutines":54}},"filebeat":{"harvester":{"open_files":0,"running":0}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":1}},"pipeline":{"clients":4,"events":{"active":0}}},"registrar":{"states":{"current":0}},"system":{"load":{"1":0.06,"15":0.13,"5":0.06,"norm":{"1":0.015,"15":0.0325,"5":0.015}}}}}}`

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-removed-but-still-logging/255956/2 "2020-11-20T00:57:51Z")

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What does `rpm -qi |grep filebeat` return?

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**Author:** ![Elitlogik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elitlogik/32/78920_2.png) [@Elitlogik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Elitlogik)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-removed-but-still-logging/255956/3 "2020-11-20T15:18:53Z")

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Sorry, didn't know you could uninstall an application and still have it running 🙂

Stopping filebeat solved the problem 🙂

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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:** [December 18, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-removed-but-still-logging/255956/4 "2020-12-18T17:19:12Z")

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