# Logstash missing files
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-missing-files/183352
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [May 29, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-missing-files/183352 "2019-05-29T14:02:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jamesp220291](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamesp220291)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-missing-files/183352/1 "2019-05-29T14:02:20Z")
Hi
See my logstash input config -
#input {
file {
path =\> "/data/logs/\*"
mode =\> "read"
file\_completed\_action =\> "log"
file\_completed\_log\_path =\> "/data/logstash-db/17\_file\_completed\_log"
}
}
I placed 4389 files in /data/logs/
When doing cat /data/logstash-db/17\_file\_completed.log | wc -l
it is saying 3211, so it is missing/ignoring 1178 of the files.
How do i determine why it is decided to completely ignore these files?
I also get different results each time, if i delete the index/clear the sincedb ect and re-copy them, sometimes it will do all of them, sometimes less.
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-missing-files/183352/2 "2019-05-29T15:51:00Z")
All I can suggest is to enable '--log.level trace' and wade through tens of thousands of lines of filewatch trace messages to see what is different about the files that it does not read.
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### Author:  [@jamesp220291](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamesp220291)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-missing-files/183352/3 "2019-05-30T06:58:00Z")
Hey @Badger
How do i go about doing this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-missing-files/183352/4 "2019-06-27T06:58:02Z")
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