[SOLVED] Filebeat creating high CPU usage

Elastic Stack Beats
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All,

I have filebeat installed on a handful of CentOS servers. Most installations are behaving well. However, one server constatntly reports extremely high CPU usage, as in the following from top:

30459 root 20 0 211m 14m 4968 S 99.7 0.8 3724:20 filebeat

Note the 99.7% CPU usage! Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

Thank you.

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Any log output from filebeat or logstash?

Which filebeat version have you installed?

Can you share your filebeat config?

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Same as me ? https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/781

Do not set scan_frequency to 0.

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Apologies. My filebeat.conf was misconfigured. Once fixed, the problem went away.