# Logstash start parsing old data when restart happened

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-start-parsing-old-data-when-restart-happened/206347>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 4, 2019, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-start-parsing-old-data-when-restart-happened/206347 "2019-11-04T07:49:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Suresh\_Pal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/suresh_pal/32/31571_2.png) [@Suresh\_Pal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suresh_Pal)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-start-parsing-old-data-when-restart-happened/206347/1 "2019-11-04T07:49:29Z")

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Hi Team,

I'm facing the issue as logstash parses the old data whenever i restart the logstash service.  
I don't know why it happened but it impact my use case and logs.

Can somebody help me to figure out the issue.  
I'm using logstash 6.8 and default configuration.

Thanks,  
Suresh

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-start-parsing-old-data-when-restart-happened/206347/2 "2019-11-04T12:42:03Z")

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What does your pipeline configuration look like?

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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:** [December 2, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-start-parsing-old-data-when-restart-happened/206347/3 "2019-12-02T12:42:05Z")

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