# Issue with logstash

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-logstash/374643
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [February 17, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-logstash/374643 "2025-02-17T15:43:22Z")
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### Author: ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-logstash/374643/2 "2025-02-17T16:23:01Z")

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If you enable log.level trace then the filewatch module will tell you what it is doing: which files it is monitoring, how big they are, how much of them it has read, etc. This logging is voluminous! Read through [this thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wildcards-regex-not-working/164204/2) to get a feel for what it is logging.

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