# Help in resetting filebeat registry to reread in log files
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-resetting-filebeat-registry-to-reread-in-log-files/349216
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 13, 2023, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-resetting-filebeat-registry-to-reread-in-log-files/349216 "2023-12-13T05:05:28Z")
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### Author:  [@allan.silverstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/allan.silverstein)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2023, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-resetting-filebeat-registry-to-reread-in-log-files/349216/1 "2023-12-13T05:05:28Z")
Hello, does anyone know how to reset the filebeat registry so I can reread in existing log files. This is for testing purposes... This is for filebeat version 8.10.4. I tried deleting the files in /var/lib/filebeat/registry/filebeat but then then filebeat would not start?? Thx
```auto
root@dev-ubuntu-200403-gui-vm-3:/var/lib/filebeat# tree
.
├── filebeat.lock
├── meta.json
└── registry
└── filebeat
├── 4668122.json
├── active.dat
├── log.json
└── meta.json
2 directories, 6 files
root@dev-ubuntu-200403-gui-vm-3:/var/lib/filebeat#
```
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### Author:  [@allan.silverstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/allan.silverstein)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2023, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-resetting-filebeat-registry-to-reread-in-log-files/349216/2 "2023-12-13T05:34:57Z")
Got this working by removing the following directory and all files below it.
rm -rf /var/lib/filebeat/registry
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### Author:  [@Rios](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rios)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2023, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-resetting-filebeat-registry-to-reread-in-log-files/349216/3 "2023-12-13T05:54:51Z")
Only need to remove log.json
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### Author:  [@allan.silverstein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/allan.silverstein)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-resetting-filebeat-registry-to-reread-in-log-files/349216/4 "2023-12-13T22:10:50Z")
Ok. Thx. I'll try that next.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-in-resetting-filebeat-registry-to-reread-in-log-files/349216/5 "2024-01-11T00:11:37Z")
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