# Harvest and send output once a specific period (days/weeks/months)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/harvest-and-send-output-once-a-specific-period-days-weeks-months/223190>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/harvest-and-send-output-once-a-specific-period-days-weeks-months/223190 "2020-03-11T18:08:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ralyenz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Ralyenz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ralyenz)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/harvest-and-send-output-once-a-specific-period-days-weeks-months/223190/1 "2020-03-11T18:08:31Z")

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Hello Experts,

I am new to FileBeat and I'm trying to configure it to harvest files and send the output to Kibana once every two weeks.  
Is it possible with FileBeat or should it be configured on Kibana's side ?

Thanks a lot for your answers !

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/harvest-and-send-output-once-a-specific-period-days-weeks-months/223190/2 "2020-03-11T20:22:31Z")

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Filebeat isn't designed to do that, you will need to run a cron job, or similar, to start filebeat and then stop it.

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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:** [April 8, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/harvest-and-send-output-once-a-specific-period-days-weeks-months/223190/3 "2020-04-08T20:26:56Z")

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