# How to stop Logstash from processing logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-logstash-from-processing-logs/125409>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 23, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-logstash-from-processing-logs/125409 "2018-03-23T20:07:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Feedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/76d3ee/32.png) [@Feedy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Feedy)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-logstash-from-processing-logs/125409/1 "2018-03-23T20:07:03Z")

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A few GB of data was sent to logstash and I now want to stop the processing of that data. Is there a way to do so? I've tried restarting and also deleting the index but after about 15 secs its starts to process the data and it shows in Kibana.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-logstash-from-processing-logs/125409/2 "2018-03-25T20:58:51Z")

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> A few GB of data was sent to logstash

From where?

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**Author:** ![Feedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/76d3ee/32.png) [@Feedy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Feedy)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-logstash-from-processing-logs/125409/3 "2018-04-02T13:59:05Z")

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filebeat

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2018, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-logstash-from-processing-logs/125409/4 "2018-04-02T19:18:56Z")

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So... make Filebeat stop sending data by shutting it down or reconfiguring 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 30, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-logstash-from-processing-logs/125409/5 "2018-04-30T19:19:04Z")

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Closed on April 30, 2018, 7:19pm UTC

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