# Ignore\_older

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-older/40526>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [January 29, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-older/40526 "2016-01-29T22:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignore-older/40526/2 "2016-02-01T08:11:37Z")

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I think best is to have a look at the discussion here: [Logstash File Handler w/ Partially Read Files](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-file-handler-w-partially-read-files/40418)

In your case ignore\_older didn't have an affect, as filebeat was running all the time and was starting the harvester as needed when the files were updated. Then LS was blocking the output so filebeat was waiting to get it available again. ignore\_older in filebeat has the same behaviour independent if LS is available or not.

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