# Possible to Control Order that Beats Processes and Ships Files/Log Lines?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-control-order-that-beats-processes-and-ships-files-log-lines/251764
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 12, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-control-order-that-beats-processes-and-ships-files-log-lines/251764 "2020-10-12T12:53:40Z")
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### Author:  [@NomadicCodeGuy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NomadicCodeGuy)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-control-order-that-beats-processes-and-ships-files-log-lines/251764/1 "2020-10-12T12:53:40Z")
I am using Beats to ship entries from log files to Logstash. I have aggregations in Logstash that are order dependent. I cannot seem to find a way to control the order that Beats processes my log files or the individual entries within the log files. Is this even possible or should I think of a new way to accomplish my task?
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### Author:  [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-control-order-that-beats-processes-and-ships-files-log-lines/251764/2 "2020-10-12T13:30:04Z")
Did you see the note about [setting workers to 1](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-aggregate.html#plugins-filters-aggregate-description)?
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### Author:  [@NomadicCodeGuy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NomadicCodeGuy)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-control-order-that-beats-processes-and-ships-files-log-lines/251764/3 "2020-10-12T14:41:07Z")
Yes I am using this setting in Logstash. When I do not use Beats to ship and just read from filepath in Logstash file input, the order is good. When I use Beats as input, the order is changed on some entries. Is there a similar setting to control the order in Beats?
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2020, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-control-order-that-beats-processes-and-ships-files-log-lines/251764/4 "2020-10-13T04:59:07Z")
What does your filebeat config look like?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-control-order-that-beats-processes-and-ships-files-log-lines/251764/5 "2020-11-10T06:59:10Z")
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