# Question about path in filebeat configuration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-path-in-filebeat-configuration/54186>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 28, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-path-in-filebeat-configuration/54186 "2016-06-28T17:41:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![nanshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@nanshan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nanshan)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-path-in-filebeat-configuration/54186/1 "2016-06-28T17:41:56Z")

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for different services, I have different path of log files.

Can I add all the paths of my log files to a single filebeat.yml?

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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:** [June 29, 2016, 6:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-path-in-filebeat-configuration/54186/2 "2016-06-29T06:29:17Z")

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Yes. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-filebeat-options.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-filebeat-options.html)

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**Author:** ![nanshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/858c86/32.png) [@nanshan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nanshan)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-path-in-filebeat-configuration/54186/3 "2016-06-29T16:54:22Z")

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path1 on host1: /var/log/apache/\*.log

path2 on host2: /var/log/serviice1/\*.log

path1 is not on host2 and path2 is not on the path1, will it still be ok to put them inside the filebeat.yml?

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-path-in-filebeat-configuration/54186/4 "2016-06-30T09:50:02Z")

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should be ok. But you might get an error message logged by filebeat about every `scan_frequency` complaining about `glob(%s) fail: ...`. A little annoying, but not critical, as next glob-pattern will be checked anyways.

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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 19, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-path-in-filebeat-configuration/54186/5 "2016-07-19T17:42:11Z")

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