# Journalbeat 7.2 repeating last log in an infinite loop

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-7-2-repeating-last-log-in-an-infinite-loop/196512>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** journalbeat\
**Created:** [August 23, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-7-2-repeating-last-log-in-an-infinite-loop/196512 "2019-08-23T11:46:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![rajatrj16](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rajatrj16/32/52875_2.png) [@rajatrj16](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajatrj16)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-7-2-repeating-last-log-in-an-infinite-loop/196512/1 "2019-08-23T11:46:16Z")

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Hello,

I am taking logs from journalctl and giving input in logstash, then logstash sent it to kibana.

**The main concern is the last log is repeating in an infinite loop and journalbeat-7.2 is publishing event in about some seconds.**

 ![23-17_06_50](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/c/fcac2b1d84b49c4840f63c170db0e25f2087d60e.png)

I will be able to see my last log in `journalctl -t <syslog.identifier> --recursive` (latest) have a single entry that is repeating again and again.

```
  $ journalctl -t XXXXXX --reverse 
    -- Logs begin at Wed 2019-04-17 12:56:46 UTC, end at Fri 2019-08-23 11:41:01 UTC. --

    Aug 23 10:42:56 APPLICATION XXXXXXX [29452]: username:XXXX.XXXXX|userId:39|ip:XXXXXX|user_agent:XXXX.6.1 (Windows NT X.XX; WOW64

```

* * *

```
journalbeat.inputs:
- paths: ["/var/log/journal/ec2fchrdeb7e4bd5"]
  seek: cursor
  cursor_seek_fallback: head

  include_matches:
      - "syslog.identifier=XXXXXXX"
setup.template.settings:
  index.number_of_shards: 1
setup.kibana:
output.logstash:
        hosts: ["xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:XXXX"]
processors:
  - add_host_metadata: ~
  - add_cloud_metadata: ~
  - drop_event:
        when:
             equals:
                  process.name: "journalbeat" 

```

😞

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**Author:** ![rajatrj16](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rajatrj16/32/52875_2.png) [@rajatrj16](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajatrj16)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-7-2-repeating-last-log-in-an-infinite-loop/196512/2 "2019-08-26T14:03:39Z")

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After some digging, **I upgraded to 7.3.0 and it fixed my issue** , I guess version 6.8.0 and 7.2.0 was broken somewhere.

but with the latest update, it fixed.

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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 4, 2022, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-7-2-repeating-last-log-in-an-infinite-loop/196512/3 "2022-11-04T07:22:37Z")

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