# Print response when finish reading a file

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/print-response-when-finish-reading-a-file/40054>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 25, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/print-response-when-finish-reading-a-file/40054 "2016-01-25T18:42:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sharon.c](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sharon.c/32/16076_2.png) [@sharon.c](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sharon.c)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/print-response-when-finish-reading-a-file/40054/1 "2016-01-25T18:42:38Z")

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When I use filebeat finish reading a file (the file does not change anymore), in command line filebeat will print out a response like this.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/c/c31bec8b78bc3e202b50a79de05b5d449e9fa747.png)  
It is normal to finish reading a file, it is not an error. Is there any way I can change the print out response to "finish reading filename.log" instead of an error message.

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/print-response-when-finish-reading-a-file/40054/2 "2016-01-25T19:17:03Z")

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Which version of filebeat are you using?

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**Author:** ![sharon.c](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sharon.c/32/16076_2.png) [@sharon.c](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sharon.c)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/print-response-when-finish-reading-a-file/40054/3 "2016-01-27T17:23:25Z")

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I am using filebeat 1.0.1

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/print-response-when-finish-reading-a-file/40054/4 "2016-01-28T13:49:15Z")

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Unfortunately you can't change this yourself. Logging messages were heavily improved for filebeat 1.1 as I agree, the above can be confusing. 1.1 should be released quite soon.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/print-response-when-finish-reading-a-file/40054/5 "2017-07-05T21:56:12Z")

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