I'm trying to figure out an official answer as to how filebeat handles this hypothetical scenario, because I can't seem to find an answer in the documentation. Presume we have an hourly log that filebeat reads and sends to Logstash. Then logstash goes down for a few hours, but filebeat hasn't finis…

Logstash File Handler w/ Partially Read Files

ruflin (ruflin) February 1, 2016, 8:13am 6

Looks like someone tested that for us Ignore_older

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