# Maybe I missed something: FIlebeat prospectors seems to randomly stop harvesting 'some' files

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maybe-i-missed-something-filebeat-prospectors-seems-to-randomly-stop-harvesting-some-files/37499
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 17, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maybe-i-missed-something-filebeat-prospectors-seems-to-randomly-stop-harvesting-some-files/37499 "2015-12-17T19:32:03Z")
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### Author: ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/maybe-i-missed-something-filebeat-prospectors-seems-to-randomly-stop-harvesting-some-files/37499/2 "2015-12-17T21:44:20Z")

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which filebeat version are you using.

problem is the ignore\_older option. We set it to 24h by default. Don't know all in details, but [this discussion thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-do-not-see-file-updates-after-a-while/34914/16) (from message onward) seems to be related.

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