# Sort order of files in s3 input

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-order-of-files-in-s3-input/25022
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 7, 2015, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-order-of-files-in-s3-input/25022 "2015-07-07T09:23:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![karasmeitar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/karasmeitar/32/35703_2.png) [@karasmeitar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karasmeitar)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2015, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-order-of-files-in-s3-input/25022/1 "2015-07-07T09:23:57Z")

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Hi All,  
it's important to me that logstash will process the files from s3 in specific order.  
can i control the order? what is the current order that logstash do? created date?update date?

10x.

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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 6, 2017, 5:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sort-order-of-files-in-s3-input/25022/2 "2017-07-06T05:35:26Z")

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