# Looking for a way to ingest a file and remove it
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-a-way-to-ingest-a-file-and-remove-it/290343
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 27, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-a-way-to-ingest-a-file-and-remove-it/290343 "2021-11-27T19:39:52Z")
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### Author:  [@hagaluly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hagaluly)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-a-way-to-ingest-a-file-and-remove-it/290343/1 "2021-11-27T19:39:52Z")
i created a logstash conf file while back and it ingest the filr and removed it.
back at the time i did not wanted this behavior but now i do...
i only forgot how to do it 🙂
can someone direct me to the correct syntax?
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-a-way-to-ingest-a-file-and-remove-it/290343/2 "2021-11-27T20:28:17Z")
Use a file input in read (not tail) mode and set [file\_completed\_action](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-file.html#plugins-inputs-file-file_completed_action) to "delete".
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### Author:  [@hagaluly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hagaluly)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-a-way-to-ingest-a-file-and-remove-it/290343/4 "2021-11-28T21:38:38Z")
my config looks like this
```auto
input {
file {
path => "/data/elastic/*.json"
mode => "read"
file_completed_action => "delete"
type => "json"
codec => "json"
start_position => "beginning"
file_completed_log_path => "/var/lib/logstash/logged_file.list"
sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
}
}
output {
stdout { codec => "dots"}
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["10.10.10.10:9200"]
index => "jenkins"
document_type => "_doc"
}
}
```
i got a nasty error
warning: thread "Converge PipelineAction::Create" terminated with exception (report\_on\_exception is true):
LogStash::Error: Don't know how to handle `Java::JavaLang::IllegalStateException` for `PipelineAction::Create`
create at org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:135
add at org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:60
converge\_state at /usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:404
[ERROR] 2021-11-28 23:31:03.685 [Agent thread] agent - An exception happened when converging configuration {:exception=\>LogStash::Error, :message=\>"Don't know how to handle `Java::JavaLang::IllegalStateException` for `PipelineAction::Create`"}
[FATAL] 2021-11-28 23:31:03.696 [LogStash::Runner] runner - An unexpected error occurred! {:error=\>#\`\>, :backtrace=\>["org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:135:in `create'", "org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:60:in `add'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:404:in `block in converge\_state'"]}
[FATAL] 2021-11-28 23:31:03.704 [LogStash::Runner] Logstash - Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit
org.jruby.exceptions.SystemExit: (SystemExit) exit
at org.jruby.RubyKernel.exit(org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:747) ~[jruby-complete-9.2.19.0.jar:?]
at org.jruby.RubyKernel.exit(org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:710) ~[jruby-complete-9.2.19.0.jar:?]
at usr.share.logstash.lib.bootstrap.environment.(/usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-a-way-to-ingest-a-file-and-remove-it/290343/5 "2021-11-28T22:38:40Z")
If you enable log.level debug do you get a more informative message?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/looking-for-a-way-to-ingest-a-file-and-remove-it/290343/6 "2021-12-26T22:38:47Z")
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