# Skip log rotation at service restart?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-log-rotation-at-service-restart/157876
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [November 22, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-log-rotation-at-service-restart/157876 "2018-11-22T12:46:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@antwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/antwan)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-log-rotation-at-service-restart/157876/1 "2018-11-22T12:46:21Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Filebeat's logs rotation malfunctioning](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-logs-rotation-malfunctioning/95522/6):
Did you look into disabling log rotation at service restart? Would be a welcome feature.
/Anders
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### Author:  [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-log-rotation-at-service-restart/157876/2 "2018-11-22T13:21:15Z")
@antwan we currently have some discussion about allowing Filebeat to take care of the file rotation, here is the [public issue](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/7633).
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### Author:  [@antwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/antwan)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-log-rotation-at-service-restart/157876/3 "2018-11-22T13:36:54Z")
Does that issue cover the rotation of Filebeats own log?
After configuring `logging.files.rotateeverybytes` for all Beats, I was hoping for a single log files until they grew to my configured size.
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### Author:  [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-log-rotation-at-service-restart/157876/4 "2018-11-22T14:01:44Z")
Sorry confused the subject.
Which version of Filebeat you are running?
I know that we recently made changes in the log rotation and these should be present in 6.5.x.
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### Author:  [@antwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/antwan)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-log-rotation-at-service-restart/157876/5 "2018-11-22T14:04:35Z")
I am at `6.4.2` for Beats. Next sprint Im going to bring ELK and Beats to `6.5.x` so I'll look into rotation then. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-log-rotation-at-service-restart/157876/6 "2018-12-20T14:17:50Z")
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