Registry file entry is empty

[punit_j (Punit Jain)]

Hi,

I am facing an issue in filebeat registry file under windows platform.
Registry file under C:\Program Files\filebeat\data\registry shows empty array []. I dont see this behavior under linux platform. Am I missing anything ?

Regards.
Punit

[andrewkroh]

The file is updated after events are successfully published to an output. Are there any errors in your log file? Or problems writing to the output?

[punit_j (Punit Jain)]

Hi Andrew,

I did some testing and found out below

my earlier filebeat config was as below:

filebeat.prospectors:
- input_type: log
  paths:
    - d:\JINK\*\Logs\*\*.log
  tags: [jinklogs]
  multiline.pattern: '^JINK'
  multiline.negate: true
  multiline.match: after
processors:
- drop_fields.fields: [offset]
- drop_fields.fields: [beat.version]

output.console:
  enabled: false
  pretty: true

output.logstash:
  hosts: ["192.168.1.230:5044"]

I changed it to

filebeat.prospectors:
- input_type: log
  paths:
    - d:\JINK\*\Logs\*\*.log
  scan_frequency: 10s
  ignore_older: 48h
  tags: [jinklogs]
  multiline.pattern: '^JINK'
  multiline.negate: true
  multiline.match: after
processors:
- drop_fields.fields: [offset]
- drop_fields.fields: [beat.version]

output.console:
  enabled: false
  pretty: true

output.logstash:
  hosts: ["192.168.1.230:5044"]

Basically added below lines and now i see registry file being populated
scan_frequency: 10s
ignore_older: 48h

has this got to do with too many open files preventing updation of registry file or something else ?