# Is the Filebeat able to listen if there is a new file in the folder and push that file to elasticsearch?

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**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-filebeat-able-to-listen-if-there-is-a-new-file-in-the-folder-and-push-that-file-to-elasticsearch/160671 "2018-12-13T06:28:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![lungelo\_zondo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@lungelo\_zondo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lungelo_zondo)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-filebeat-able-to-listen-if-there-is-a-new-file-in-the-folder-and-push-that-file-to-elasticsearch/160671/1 "2018-12-13T06:28:58Z")

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Want to automatically read new files from a folder.

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**Author:** ![NerdSec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nerdsec/32/22056_2.png) [@NerdSec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NerdSec)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-filebeat-able-to-listen-if-there-is-a-new-file-in-the-folder-and-push-that-file-to-elasticsearch/160671/2 "2018-12-13T06:58:38Z")

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> [@lungelo\_zondo](#):
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> Want to automatically read new files from a folder.

Yes.

It keeps a track of the files in something called the registry file.

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**Author:** ![lungelo\_zondo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@lungelo\_zondo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lungelo_zondo)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-filebeat-able-to-listen-if-there-is-a-new-file-in-the-folder-and-push-that-file-to-elasticsearch/160671/3 "2018-12-13T07:00:10Z")

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Thank you so much Nachiket

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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:** [January 10, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-the-filebeat-able-to-listen-if-there-is-a-new-file-in-the-folder-and-push-that-file-to-elasticsearch/160671/4 "2019-01-10T07:00:13Z")

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