# Filebeat stopped sending the log entries

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-sending-the-log-entries/260217>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 5, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-sending-the-log-entries/260217 "2021-01-05T14:03:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saravana37](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/saravana37/32/85237_2.png) [@Saravana37](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saravana37)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-sending-the-log-entries/260217/1 "2021-01-05T14:03:58Z")

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Hello ,

We have a typical issue here. Filebeat suddenly stopped sending the log entries and i can see the below message in the log.

```
2021-01-05T14:58:50.314+0100 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:144 Non-zero
 metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"syst
em":{"ticks":1937,"time":{"ms":141}},"total":{"ticks":4312,"time":{"ms":220},"va
lue":4312},"user":{"ticks":2375,"time":{"ms":79}}},"handles":{"open":183},"info"
:{"ephemeral_id":"4712218c-147a-4c2e-aa10-3e605837612f","uptime":{"ms":363052}},
"memstats":{"gc_next":70696576,"memory_alloc":58147480,"memory_total":532591216,
"rss":4096}},"filebeat":{"harvester":{"open_files":13,"running":13}},"libbeat":{
"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"output":{"read":{"bytes":36}},"pipeline":{"cl
ients":1,"events":{"active":8213}}},"registrar":{"states":{"current":152}}}}}

```

I have not made any changes for filebeat as well. After restarting the filebeat also i don't see any luck.

Filebeat.yml

```
###################### Filebeat Configuration Example #########################
# This file is an example configuration file highlighting only the most common
# options. The filebeat.reference.yml file from the same directory contains all the
# supported options with more comments. You can use it as a reference.
#
# You can find the full configuration reference here:
# https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/index.html
# For more available modules and options, please see the filebeat.reference.yml sample
# configuration file.
#=========================== Filebeat inputs =============================
filebeat.inputs:
# Each - is an input. Most options can be set at the input level, so
# you can use different inputs for various configurations.
# Below are the input specific configurations.
- type: log
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - E:/logging/CompassFeedbackAPI/*
    - E:/logging/CustomPropertiesAPI/*
    - E:/logging/InteractionAPI/*
    - E:/logging/Kafka/Kafka_consumer*
    - E:/logging/Kafka/Kafka_retry*
    - E:/logging/MasterDataApi/*
    - E:/logging/OSVFacade/V1/*
    - E:/logging/TDNotification/V3/*
    - E:/logging/VeDocAPI/*
  # Exclude lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It drops the lines that are
  # matching any regular expression from the list.
  #exclude_lines: ['^DBG']
  #exclude_lines: ['SBL-DAT-00327','SBL-UIF-00401','SBL-DAT-60171','^TaskConfigSval','^TaskConfigStat','^TaskConfig']
  # Include lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It exports the lines that are
  # matching any regular expression from the list.
  include_lines: ['^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}']
  # Exclude files. A list of regular expressions to match. Filebeat drops the files that
  # are matching any regular expression from the list. By default, no files are dropped.
  #exclude_files: ['.gz$']
  #exclude_files: ['FSMSrvr*','ServerMgr*','SvrTblCleanup*','SvrTaskPersist*','DbXtract*','GenNewDb*','RepAgent*','SynchMgr*','AsgnBatch*','GenTrig*']
  #exclude_files: ['EIM*','FSMSrvr*','ServerMgr*','SRBroker*','SRProc*','SvrTblCleanup*','SvrTaskPersist*','SCBroker*','CommSessionMgr*','DbXtract*','GenNewDb*','RepAgent*','SynchMgr*','AsgnSrvr*','AsgnBatch*','GenTrig*']
  # Optional additional fields. These fields can be freely picked
  # to add additional information to the crawled log files for filtering
  #fields:
  # level: debug
  # review: 1
  ### Multiline options
  # Multiline can be used for log messages spanning multiple lines. This is common
  #for Java Stack Traces or C-Line Continuation
  # The regexp Pattern that has to be matched. The example pattern matches all lines starting with [
  multiline.pattern: '^[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}'
  # Defines if the pattern set under pattern should be negated or not. Default is false.
  multiline.negate: true
  # Match can be set to "after" or "before". It is used to define if lines should be append to a pattern
  # that was (not) matched before or after or as long as a pattern is not matched based on negate.
  # Note: After is the equivalent to previous and before is the equivalent to to next in Logstash
  multiline.match: after
  tail_files: false
  ignore_older: 5h
  scan_frequency: 2s
  #clean_inactive: 25h
  close_inactive: 15m
filebeat.registry_flush: 60s
#============================= Filebeat modules ===============================
filebeat.config.modules:
  # Glob pattern for configuration loading
  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
  # Set to true to enable config reloading
  reload.enabled: false
  # Period on which files under path should be checked for changes
  #reload.period: 10s
#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ==========================
setup.template.settings:
  index.number_of_shards: 3
  #index.codec: best_compression
  #_source.enabled: false
#================================ General =====================================
# The name of the shipper that publishes the network data. It can be used to group
# all the transactions sent by a single shipper in the web interface.
#name:
# The tags of the shipper are included in their own field with each
# transaction published.
#tags: ["service-X", "web-tier"]
# Optional fields that you can specify to add additional information to the output.
fields:
  env: PROD
#============================== Dashboards =====================================
# These settings control loading the sample dashboards to the Kibana index. Loading
# the dashboards is disabled by default and can be enabled either by setting the
# options here, or by using the `-setup` CLI flag or the `setup` command.
#setup.dashboards.enabled: false
# The URL from where to download the dashboards archive. By default this URL
# has a value which is computed based on the Beat name and version. For released
# versions, this URL points to the dashboard archive on the artifacts.elastic.co
# website.
#setup.dashboards.url:
#============================== Kibana =====================================
# Starting with Beats version 6.0.0, the dashboards are loaded via the Kibana API.
# This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration.
#setup.kibana:
  # Kibana Host
  # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 5601)
  # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: http://localhost:5601/path
  # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601
  #host: "localhost:5601"
  # Kibana Space ID
  # ID of the Kibana Space into which the dashboards should be loaded. By default,
  # the Default Space will be used.
  #space.id:
#============================= Elastic Cloud ==================================
# These settings simplify using filebeat with the Elastic Cloud (https://cloud.elastic.co/).
# The cloud.id setting overwrites the `output.elasticsearch.hosts` and
# `setup.kibana.host` options.
# You can find the `cloud.id` in the Elastic Cloud web UI.
#cloud.id:
# The cloud.auth setting overwrites the `output.elasticsearch.username` and
# `output.elasticsearch.password` settings. The format is `<user>:<pass>`.
#cloud.auth:
#================================ Outputs =====================================
# Configure what output to use when sending the data collected by the beat.
#-------------------------- Elasticsearch #output ------------------------------
#output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
# hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
  # Enabled ilm (beta) to use index lifecycle management instead daily indices.
  #ilm.enabled: false
  # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  #protocol: "https"
  #username: "elastic"
  #password: "changeme"
#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
output.logstash:
  # The Logstash hosts
  hosts: ["53.XXX.XX.XX:6044"]
  worker: 4
  slow_start: true
  bulk_max_size: 2048
  # Optional SSL. By default is off.
  # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications
  #ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
  # Certificate for SSL client authentication
  #ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"
  # Client Certificate Key
  #ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"
#================================ Processors =====================================
# Configure processors to enhance or manipulate events generated by the beat.
queue.mem:
  events: 8192
  flush.min_events: 2048
  flush.timeout: 5s
  
processors:
  - add_host_metadata: ~
  - add_cloud_metadata: ~
#================================ Logging =====================================
# Sets log level. The default log level is info.
# Available log levels are: error, warning, info, debug
logging.level: info
logging.files.rotateeverybytes: 52428800
# At debug level, you can selectively enable logging only for some components.
# To enable all selectors use ["*"]. Examples of other selectors are "beat",
# "publish", "service".
#logging.selectors: ["*"]
#============================== Xpack Monitoring ===============================
# filebeat can export internal metrics to a central Elasticsearch monitoring
# cluster. This requires xpack monitoring to be enabled in Elasticsearch. The
# reporting is disabled by default.
# Set to true to enable the monitoring reporter.
#xpack.monitoring.enabled: false
# Uncomment to send the metrics to Elasticsearch. Most settings from the
# Elasticsearch output are accepted here as well. Any setting that is not set is
# automatically inherited from the Elasticsearch output configuration, so if you
# have the Elasticsearch output configured, you can simply uncomment the
# following line.
#xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch: 

```

Kindly help me please.

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**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-sending-the-log-entries/260217/2 "2021-01-05T14:13:48Z")

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Hi!

Do you see any other log message? Do you run Filebeat in debug mode? This would be helpful so as to check if there is anything failing.

C.

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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:** [February 2, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stopped-sending-the-log-entries/260217/3 "2021-02-02T16:13:49Z")

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