# Question about filebeat 5.0.0-alpha trial

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-filebeat-5-0-0-alpha-trial/57190>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 4, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-filebeat-5-0-0-alpha-trial/57190 "2016-08-04T08:04:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elastic3150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@Elastic3150](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Elastic3150)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-filebeat-5-0-0-alpha-trial/57190/1 "2016-08-04T08:04:39Z")

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I'm using `filebeat version 5.0.0-alpha3 (amd64), libbeat 5.0.0-alpha3` for realtime log collection trial in following config:

> filebeat.prospectors:
> 
> - input\_type: log  
> paths:
> - /path/to/access.log.\*

> output.logstash:  
> hosts: ["10.0.0.1:24224", "10.0.0.2:24224"]  
> loadbalance: true

Log record flow is forwarder(filebeat x 3) -\> aggregator(td-agent x 2) -\> serializer(td-agent x 2) -\> file output.

Two questions are as follows:

1. Most records arrive immediately, but very few record takes 1-2 hours. Can I shorten time by filebeat.yml setting?
2. When does 5.0.0 become production release?

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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:** [August 8, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-filebeat-5-0-0-alpha-trial/57190/2 "2016-08-08T08:17:27Z")

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With the td-agent are you referring to the fluentd agent? I'm not aware of the implementation they use so I would recommend to test if everything works as expected with Logstash itself first as this is what we test. I would recommend to update to alpha4 to make sure all the most recent fixes are included.

By default the `scan_frequency` is `10s` in filebeat, so new records should be crawled latest after 10s. I would recommend you to have a look at the filebeat log file to see if there are some output issues in the logs which could explain the delays.

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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:** [August 25, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-filebeat-5-0-0-alpha-trial/57190/3 "2016-08-25T08:04:54Z")

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