# How does sincedb work for a Logstash reading multiple files from a single directory?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-sincedb-work-for-a-logstash-reading-multiple-files-from-a-single-directory/99456>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-sincedb-work-for-a-logstash-reading-multiple-files-from-a-single-directory/99456 "2017-09-05T15:15:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![amruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@amruth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amruth)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-does-sincedb-work-for-a-logstash-reading-multiple-files-from-a-single-directory/99456/4 "2017-09-07T19:07:14Z")

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Hi Guy,

For my above mentioned example, I am using a single sincedb file for multiple input files. So how would the sincedb file look? Would it have multiple entries(information about all the input files)?

Thanks

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