# Log rotation and filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-rotation-and-filebeat/140285>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-rotation-and-filebeat/140285 "2018-07-17T08:47:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/log-rotation-and-filebeat/140285/11 "2018-07-20T08:29:56Z")

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All the options that rename the file and add a postfix to the name and create a new one to write the data in. Anything that does a copy or truncates the file I would stay away from.

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