# Monitoring files in a directory
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-files-in-a-directory/136289
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [June 18, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-files-in-a-directory/136289 "2018-06-18T10:25:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@rohitnrl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rohitnrl)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-files-in-a-directory/136289/1 "2018-06-18T10:25:00Z")
Hi,
I have a directory where files are being written really quick. Is there a way i can access the newly written file to that directory and then pass the information to elasticsearch.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-files-in-a-directory/136289/2 "2018-06-18T10:36:55Z")
Did you really mean to post this in #elasticsearch:rally?
What kind of files are they?
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### Author:  [@rohitnrl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rohitnrl)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-files-in-a-directory/136289/3 "2018-06-18T10:51:38Z")
These files are my system logs files and there are number of files that gets generated based on timestamp. so i want to read the newly created file extract the data out of it and send the data to elasticsearch database.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-files-in-a-directory/136289/4 "2018-06-18T11:05:21Z")
Ok so I'm moving your question to #beats:filebeat.
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### Author:  [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-files-in-a-directory/136289/5 "2018-06-18T12:21:03Z")
I suggest you try filebeat with a low value (1s) for the [scan\_frequency](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-input-log.html#filebeat-input-log-scan-frequency) parameter.
It is important that you familiarise yourself with the [settings for filebeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-input-log.html) so you can tune it for your use case. Specially the `close_*` and `clean_*` parameters.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2018, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-files-in-a-directory/136289/6 "2018-07-16T12:21:08Z")
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