# Set order of filebeat inputs
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-order-of-filebeat-inputs/267157
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [March 13, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-order-of-filebeat-inputs/267157 "2021-03-13T18:04:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@SKiD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SKiD)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-order-of-filebeat-inputs/267157/1 "2021-03-13T18:04:30Z")
Hey,
I want to ship lines from Filebeat to Logstash in a specific input order. The reason I want to do that is that the documents of the second input are basing on the documents of the second input. This means I update those documents I have shipped at first.
I was thinking, that I could reduce the harvester to 1 because then Filebeat would read first the files of the first input before it starts to read the files of the second input, but I can't figure out, how Filebeat determines the order of inputs. Every time I start Filebeat the wrong input will be processed and Logstash throws exceptions because the documents do not exist (yet).
Is there a way to set the order somehow?
Or maybe any workaround?
Thank you and best regards,
Danny.
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### Author:  [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-order-of-filebeat-inputs/267157/2 "2021-03-15T18:26:09Z")
Filebeat does not offer any guarantees with ordering of the inputs. Perhaps you could look into using [Elasticsearch's `enrich` processor](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/ingest-enriching-data.html)?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-order-of-filebeat-inputs/267157/3 "2021-04-12T20:27:09Z")
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