# Tell Logstash to ignore old files in s3 bucket

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tell-logstash-to-ignore-old-files-in-s3-bucket/226759
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [April 6, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tell-logstash-to-ignore-old-files-in-s3-bucket/226759 "2020-04-06T18:01:13Z")
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### Author: ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tell-logstash-to-ignore-old-files-in-s3-bucket/226759/2 "2020-04-06T19:04:54Z")

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[This](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/skip-reading-historical-data-in-logstash-while-parsing-logs/129221) thread is about dropping events using the output of an age{} filter. It would still read the bucket, but not reprocess all the data.

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