# Journalbeat does not support globbing?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-does-not-support-globbing/248666>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** journalbeat, filebeat\
**Created:** [September 15, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-does-not-support-globbing/248666 "2020-09-15T11:28:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![kbaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/958977/32.png) [@kbaf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kbaf)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 11:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-does-not-support-globbing/248666/1 "2020-09-15T11:28:29Z")

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I have several directories with different journals I'd like to collect with globbing:

```auto
    - paths:
      - "/var/log/journal"
      - "/openstack/log/*/journal/*/system.journal"

```

This is documented behaviour for filebeat but does not work with journalbeat:

```auto
    ERROR	instance/beat.go:951	Exiting: error creating reader for journal: reader.go:107: failed to read meta data for /openstack/log/*/journal/*/system.journal (path=/openstack/log/*/journal/*/system.journal)
    	stat /openstack/log/*/journal/*/system.journal: no such file or directory

```

Is there any way to make this work?

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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:** [October 13, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-does-not-support-globbing/248666/2 "2020-10-13T13:28:49Z")

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