# FileBeats consuming unnecessary disk
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-consuming-unnecessary-disk/207615
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [November 13, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-consuming-unnecessary-disk/207615 "2019-11-13T02:56:37Z")
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### Author:  [@rwat090](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rwat090)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-consuming-unnecessary-disk/207615/1 "2019-11-13T02:56:37Z")
This seems to be a common issue but I would just like some input, we have an issue where filebeats is not removing openFiles
filebeat 54442 root 8r REG 253,2 104857631 51401225 /var/log/grouper/grouper.api/grouper\_error.log.2 (deleted)
filebeat 54442 root 9r REG 253,2 104857930 51401222 /var/log/grouper/grouper.api/grouper\_error.log.2 (deleted)
filebeat 54442 root 10r REG 253,2 104857642 51401217 /var/log/grouper/grouper.api/grouper\_error.log.2 (deleted)
filebeat 54442 root 11r REG 253,2 104857771 51401219 /var/log/grouper/grouper.api/grouper\_error.log.2 (deleted)
a total of 94 files 9.4gig of removed/rotated files
Config for Version: filebeat-6.7.2-1.x86\_64
Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
paths:
- /var/log/grouper/grouper.api/\*.log
type: log
multiline.pattern: '^(2[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9])'
multiline.negate: true
multiline.match: after
tags: ["Grouper-api"]
Number of workers per Logstash host.
worker: 1
bulk\_max\_size: 2048
#test
close\_inactive: 1m
close\_renamed: true
close\_removed: true
ignore\_older: 2m
close\_timeout: 2m
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-consuming-unnecessary-disk/207615/2 "2019-12-11T03:02:57Z")
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