# Open Files Limit **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [July 7, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-files-limit/54961 "2016-07-07T15:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jezeling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jezeling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jezeling)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-files-limit/54961/1 "2016-07-07T15:44:21Z")
Hi, Apologies if this is in the wrong group but I have started to receive an open file error on my logstash nodes that push the data into my two node elastic cluster: - Reached open files limit: 4095, set by the 'max\_open\_files' option or default, files yet to open: 28217 I've simplified my indexes down, I did have date specific ones, to make sure I don't have too many open files per node but still the error persists. From all the settings I've checked I can't find any mention of 4095, all I see is 65535. Is anyone able to offer any insight as to if they have seen similar issues? I have followed various posts about open file limits but still coming up with the error. Cheers Jez ---
**Author:** ![jezeling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jezeling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jezeling)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-files-limit/54961/2 "2016-07-07T16:19:25Z")
Ok so I fixed this, turns out it was being caused by a file path monitor on LogStash for CDR and CMR files from the Cisco Call Manager....lots and lots of files not cleaned up. ---
**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, 4:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/open-files-limit/54961/3 "2017-07-06T04:49:04Z")