# FIlebeat sends garbled messages to logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sends-garbled-messages-to-logstash/136662>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 20, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sends-garbled-messages-to-logstash/136662 "2018-06-20T09:49:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![breetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@breetty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/breetty)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sends-garbled-messages-to-logstash/136662/1 "2018-06-20T09:49:51Z")

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Hi,

Around midnight, filebeat sends garbled messages like "message":"\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000" to logstash. The log file is in a glusterfs network share. We are using filebeat version 6.0.  
Please advise on what can be done for this.

Thanks and Regards,  
Breetty

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**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sends-garbled-messages-to-logstash/136662/2 "2018-06-20T22:12:06Z")

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Hi @breetty,

Is this always happening at the same ~time? I'm wondering, does the file gets rotated at that time?

Best regards

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**Author:** ![breetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@breetty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/breetty)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sends-garbled-messages-to-logstash/136662/3 "2018-06-21T04:58:32Z")

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Hi,  
Yes it is always happening at same time time range, from 12:30 am to 2:00 am. The log keeps rotating multiple times in a day but the last rotation for the day happens during that time only. Do you think that is a problem?  
Jun 20 00:00 Logfile.log.20  
Jun 20 01:12 Logfile.log.19  
Jun 20 01:32 Logfile.log.18  
Jun 20 05:00 Logfile.log.22  
Jun 20 14:35 Logfile.log.13  
Jun 20 14:36 Logfile.log.14  
Jun 20 14:36 Logfile.log.9  
Jun 20 14:37 Logfile.log.10  
Jun 20 16:25 Logfile.log.12  
Jun 20 16:31 Logfile.log.15  
**Jun 21 00:53 Logfile.log.6**  
**Jun 21 01:12 Logfile.log.4**

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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 19, 2018, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-sends-garbled-messages-to-logstash/136662/4 "2018-07-19T05:02:14Z")

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