# Logstash S3 output gzip empty files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-s3-output-gzip-empty-files/59373>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 30, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-s3-output-gzip-empty-files/59373 "2016-08-30T23:41:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![lrem006](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ba0ec/32.png) [@lrem006](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lrem006)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-s3-output-gzip-empty-files/59373/1 "2016-08-30T23:41:06Z")

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I was so excited to see that file compression is available on the release on github!

> **[logstash-plugins/logstash-output-s3](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-s3)**
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> Contribute to logstash-output-s3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

I tried it and noticed that I was getting empty files with a size of 20 bytes being posted into S3 when a time\_file event is triggered and no log data is pushed. Did anyone else run into this?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-s3-output-gzip-empty-files/59373/2 "2017-07-06T04:40:43Z")

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