# Filebeats sometimes not sending?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-sometimes-not-sending/64374>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 30, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-sometimes-not-sending/64374 "2016-10-30T14:30:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![glagidse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@glagidse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/glagidse)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-sometimes-not-sending/64374/1 "2016-10-30T14:30:58Z")

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I'm currently following this tutorial:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/master/advanced-pipeline.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/master/advanced-pipeline.html)

after 2 hours of searching I discovered that beats only sends files if they're changed, if I stop and restart it, it won't send what's already been sent, but this is a tutorial and it's confusing to me because these concepts have not been explained yet. It would have been nice if someone told me that I had to delete the contents of the data folder in filebeats.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-sometimes-not-sending/64374/2 "2017-07-06T04:32:00Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:32am UTC