# Filebeat stopped sending logs continuously

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-sending-logs-continuously/246595>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-sending-logs-continuously/246595 "2020-08-27T10:15:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silvium](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/silvium/32/74609_2.png) [@Silvium](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Silvium)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-sending-logs-continuously/246595/1 "2020-08-27T10:15:10Z")

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Filebeat has started to have gaps in sending logs from a file written by rsyslog from a docker instance. Below the visualisation of count of documents from specific host

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/5/5543aff5c7557bed014eb6a13f5b3777f1672aa1.png)

The path logs take to Kibana is:  
Docker-\> rsyslog -\> file -\> Filebeat -\> Kafka -\> Logstash -\> Elasticsearch

Some notes:

- There has been no changes in the configuration of any of these.
- The decline of the logs is curious and is not a normal day distribution
- When looking at the documents ingested I can see the logs are showing up at similar time with when the log file was rotated. E.g.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/e/4ed8bcbcb9ec2f8905a6e0fc1f927c6df80a10f1.png)

```auto
-rw-------. 1 root root 478180336 Aug 27 18:04 /var/log/docker-containers.log
-rw-------. 1 root root 531935644 Aug 27 17:53 /var/log/docker-containers.log.1
-rw-------. 1 root root 538376090 Aug 27 17:40 /var/log/docker-containers.log.2
-rw-------. 1 root root 555042900 Aug 27 17:27 /var/log/docker-containers.log.3
-rw-------. 1 root root 534362012 Aug 27 17:15 /var/log/docker-containers.log.4

```

The amount of logs that come in at that time tho doesn't count to the expected amount of logs.

- I have tried configuring the path with both just the path and with a wildcard at the end

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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:** [September 24, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-sending-logs-continuously/246595/2 "2020-09-24T12:15:20Z")

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