# FIlebeat timesout connecting to logstash **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [March 1, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-timesout-connecting-to-logstash/122118 "2018-03-01T16:07:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![asp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-timesout-connecting-to-logstash/122118/2 "2018-03-01T20:32:09Z")
do you also have duplicates in logstash or don't you get any data to logstash via filebeat? I assume I am struggling with a similar issue like you: > [@Strange filebeat behavior: timeout and duplicate pushing to logstash's beats plugin](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-filebeat-behavior-timeout-and-duplicate-pushing-to-logstashs-beats-plugin/122148): > > Hi, During my migration from 5.1.2 / 5.2.0 to 6.1.x / 6.2.1 I encountered some issues. Trying to sharpen the cause of my issues I noticed strange behavior when shipping files from filebeat to logstash. I got reproducible issues when shipping one of our logfiles to logstash 6.2.1. It doesn't matter if I use filebeat 5.6.7 or 6.2.1. Here is my testcase: start logstash start filebeat logfile\_which\_is\_harvested\_by\_filebeat does not exist yet create logfile by cat logfile\_input \> logfile\_which\_i… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-timesout-connecting-to-logstash/122118)._