# Filebeat won't send files cause ignore\_older reached

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-send-files-cause-ignore-older-reached/72086>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 18, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-send-files-cause-ignore-older-reached/72086 "2017-01-18T20:50:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Shadowraze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Shadowraze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shadowraze)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-send-files-cause-ignore-older-reached/72086/1 "2017-01-18T20:50:14Z")

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Elasticsearch + kibana + logstash + filebeat all was downloaded 2 days ago from official site(.deb).

Thats my filebeat.yml [http://pastebin.com/ij18FMec](http://pastebin.com/ij18FMec).

It's like every harvest in filebeat log looks like this  
2017-01-18T21:32:13+01:00 DBG Ignore file because ignore\_older reached: /var/log/syslog  
2017-01-18T21:32:13+01:00 DBG Ignore file because ignore\_older reached: /var/log/dmesg

Am i doing something wrong? Just started with elk stack.

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**Author:** ![Shadowraze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Shadowraze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shadowraze)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-send-files-cause-ignore-older-reached/72086/2 "2017-01-18T21:11:16Z")

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Ok, i'm retarded with 'tail\_files: true' it's seems filebeat reading only new entries,

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-send-files-cause-ignore-older-reached/72086/3 "2017-01-19T09:30:10Z")

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That is the case. Does that mean your problem was solved?

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**Author:** ![Shadowraze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Shadowraze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shadowraze)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-send-files-cause-ignore-older-reached/72086/4 "2017-01-19T14:08:18Z")

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yes.

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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 8, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-wont-send-files-cause-ignore-older-reached/72086/5 "2017-02-08T20:50:26Z")

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