# Is config reload logged?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-config-reload-logged/197067
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [August 28, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-config-reload-logged/197067 "2019-08-28T08:35:48Z")
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### Author: ![asp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-config-reload-logged/197067/1 "2019-08-28T08:35:48Z")

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Hi, I am using config reload on logs like described here:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/\_live\_reloading.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/_live_reloading.html)

```
#=========================== Filebeat inputs =============================
# Enable filebeat config reloading
filebeat.config:
  inputs:
    enabled: true
    path: inputs.d/*.yml
    reload.enabled: true
    reload.period: 30s

```

How can I see in filebeat logs when the reload has been done successfully?

Inside that inputs.d folder I have files with content like this:

```
- type: log

  enabled: true

  paths:
    - /var/log/myapp/session-fail.log

  encoding: windows-1252

  fields:
    logType: session_fail
    instance.name: dev4

  fields_under_root: true
  #ignore_older: 0

  scan_frequency: 1s

  multiline.pattern: ^\[[\d \-\.\,:]{23}\] ([\d+\.]{4}|unknown)
  multiline.negate: true
  multiline.match: after

  multiline.max_lines: 10000

  # After the defined timeout, an multiline event is sent even if no new pattern was found to start a new event
  # Default is 5s.
  multiline.timeout: 5s

```

Thanks Andreas

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### Author: ![kumarabhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6a8cbe/32.png) [@kumarabhi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumarabhi)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-config-reload-logged/197067/2 "2019-08-29T18:18:31Z")

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A simple way would be to add a new input config and then look at filebeat log (/var/log/filebeat/filebeat -- log location on Linux) and check if harverster started for the files mentioned in the additional config.

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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: [September 26, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-config-reload-logged/197067/3 "2019-09-26T18:22:16Z")

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