# Is winlogbeat able to ingore events before specific time?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-winlogbeat-able-to-ingore-events-before-specific-time/253486>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-winlogbeat-able-to-ingore-events-before-specific-time/253486 "2020-10-27T19:19:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Louis\_Zhang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/louis_zhang/32/66921_2.png) [@Louis\_Zhang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Louis_Zhang)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-winlogbeat-able-to-ingore-events-before-specific-time/253486/1 "2020-10-27T19:19:16Z")

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I found winlogbeat is able to configured to ignore events older since now.

```auto
winlogbeat.event_logs:
  - name: Application
    ignore_older: 72h
  - name: Security
  - name: System

```

Woundering if it's possible to configure to ignore event before a specific time, like

```auto
winlogbeat.event_logs:
  - name: Application
    ignore_before: 2020-10-01 12:00:00UTC+8
  - name: Security
  - name: System

```

We have lots of machines on Cloud, and we are frequently restore them, with above configuration we can specify the time we restored the machine to avoid collecting duplicate events.

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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:** [November 24, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-winlogbeat-able-to-ingore-events-before-specific-time/253486/2 "2020-11-24T21:19:27Z")

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