# Support for handling rotated files as .gz files in filebeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-for-handling-rotated-files-as-gz-files-in-filebeat/104858
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 23, 2017, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-for-handling-rotated-files-as-gz-files-in-filebeat/104858 "2017-10-23T08:04:36Z")
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### Author:  [@an.secure](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/an.secure)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2017, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-for-handling-rotated-files-as-gz-files-in-filebeat/104858/1 "2017-10-23T08:04:37Z")
Does filebeat support compressed files?
Our java application is writing the logs to log.json file using logback RollingFileAppender.
After 5MB the file is rotated like below :
arch\_2017-10-23.1.gz
arch\_2017-10-23.2.gz and so on.
Can I specify the arch\*.gz in the paths for filebeat to capture the data in the rotated files?
Filebeat version used : 5.6.x
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-for-handling-rotated-files-as-gz-files-in-filebeat/104858/2 "2017-10-23T13:15:29Z")
No, compressed files are not yet supported. For more information/progress have a look [at this enhancement request](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/637).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/support-for-handling-rotated-files-as-gz-files-in-filebeat/104858/3 "2017-11-20T13:15:37Z")
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