# Filebeat stops sending logs to logstash, "message":"Harvester could not be started on existing file

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stops-sending-logs-to-logstash-message-harvester-could-not-be-started-on-existing-file/345048>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 15, 2023, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stops-sending-logs-to-logstash-message-harvester-could-not-be-started-on-existing-file/345048 "2023-10-15T12:46:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![aleem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@aleem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aleem)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stops-sending-logs-to-logstash-message-harvester-could-not-be-started-on-existing-file/345048/1 "2023-10-15T12:46:22Z")

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Filebeat stops sending logs to logstash and needs a manual restart to resume. Logs for specific containers are stopped, while other container's logs are still going to logstash.

{"log.level":"error","@timestamp":"2023-10-15T10:31:33.130Z","log.logger":"input","log.origin":{"file.name":"log/input.go","file.line":581},"message":"Harvester could not be started on existing file: /var/log/containers/test-0\_default\_test-af0265487cd287889e9d4e3c079ec488036e8513bfe96e2b7442be7dffb5648a.log, Err: registry already stopped","service.name":"filebeat","input\_id":"23baecfc-7cc6-42bf-9745-a5c5dcb32f63","source\_file":"/var/log/containers/test-0\_default\_test-af0265487cd287889e9d4e3c079ec488036e8513bfe96e2b7442be7dffb5648a.log","state\_id":"native::5676491-64768","finished":false,"os\_id":"5676491-64768","old\_source":"/var/log/containers/test-0\_default\_test-af0265487cd287889e9d4e3c079ec488036e8513bfe96e2b7442be7dffb5648a.log","old\_finished":true,"old\_os\_id":"5676491-64768","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}

Is there any solution to this issue?

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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:** [November 12, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-stops-sending-logs-to-logstash-message-harvester-could-not-be-started-on-existing-file/345048/2 "2023-11-12T14:47:20Z")

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