# Filebeat restart question

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-restart-question/335194
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [June 5, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-restart-question/335194 "2023-06-05T09:08:56Z")
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### Author: ![nunex\_17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@nunex\_17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nunex_17)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-restart-question/335194/1 "2023-06-05T09:08:56Z")

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Hi there,

Everytime I need to restart Filebeat, my "scripted fields" and customization to some fields are broken. Also the dashboards are reset.

Is this normal? Is there any way that I can fix this behaviour to prevent this from happening?

Kind regards.

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### Author: ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-restart-question/335194/2 "2023-06-06T09:23:14Z")

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Hi @nunex_17,

Are you seeing any errors on restart?

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### Author: ![nunex\_17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@nunex\_17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nunex_17)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-restart-question/335194/3 "2023-06-06T09:34:45Z")

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I do not see any error on restart

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### Author: ![carly.richmond](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carly.richmond/32/104935_2.png) [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2023, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-restart-question/335194/4 "2023-06-21T10:21:49Z")

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> [@nunex\_17](#):
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> Everytime I need to restart Filebeat, my "scripted fields" and customization to some fields are broken

Thanks for confirming. Can you share what you mean by broken? Which version of Filebeat and Elasticsearch are you using?

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### Author: ![nunex\_17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@nunex\_17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nunex_17)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-restart-question/335194/5 "2023-07-04T10:24:32Z")

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I am using v 8.6.2.

One thing that is broken is for example the scripted fields that i customize.

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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 1, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-restart-question/335194/6 "2023-08-01T12:25:27Z")

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