# Unable exclude files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-exclude-files/174704>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 1, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-exclude-files/174704 "2019-04-01T04:27:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![yagami23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e19adc/32.png) [@yagami23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yagami23)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-exclude-files/174704/1 "2019-04-01T04:27:22Z")

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Hi, i using Filebeat 6.5.4, below is my filebeat content, the problem is those path stated in the "exclude files" are not being ignore, the filebeat still pick up the files under those path, any advise ?

/opt/apps/logs/cron/ _/_.log. \*  
/opt/apps/logs/tcollector/tcollector.log  
/opt/apps/logs/wlstats/wlstats- \* . \*  
/opt/apps/logs/\*/weblogic/ \*.log

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filebeat.inputs:  
-type: log  
enabled: true  
paths:  
-/opt/apps/logs/_/ \* / \* .log  
-/opt/apps/logs/_/ \* / \* . log. \*  
-/opt/apps/logs/_/ \* / \* / \* . log  
-/opt/apps/logs/_/ \* / \* / \* . log.\*  
-/opt/apps/logs/_/ \* / \* / \* / \* .log  
-/opt/apps/logs/_/ \* / \* / \* / \* .log.\*

exclude\_files: ['.gz$', '.zip$', '.tar$' , '.tgz$' , '.lck$', '.bz2$', '/opt/apps/logs/cron/\* /_.log._ '/opt/apps/logs/\*/weblogic/ \*.log']  
fields:  
env: prod  
tail\_files: true  
tags: ["websys","weblogic"]

setup.kibana:

output.logstash:  
hosts: ["abc1:5044","def2:5044","ghi3:5044"]  
loadbalance: true

logging.level: info  
logging.to\_files: true  
logging.files:  
path: /opt/apps/filebeat/logs  
name: filebeat-logs  
keepfiles: 7

processors:

- add\_host\_metadata: ~
- add\_cloud\_metadata: ~

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**Author:** ![yagami23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e19adc/32.png) [@yagami23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yagami23)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-exclude-files/174704/2 "2019-04-02T00:40:30Z")

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much appreciate if any help/advise

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-exclude-files/174704/3 "2019-04-02T03:34:33Z")

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Please don't post pictures of text, they are difficult to read and some people may not be even able to see them 🙂

Please also format your code/logs/config using the `</>` button, or markdown style back ticks. It helps to make things easy to read which helps us help you 🙂

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**Author:** ![yagami23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e19adc/32.png) [@yagami23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yagami23)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-exclude-files/174704/4 "2019-04-02T06:13:02Z")

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noted, thanks

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**Author:** ![yagami23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e19adc/32.png) [@yagami23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yagami23)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-exclude-files/174704/5 "2019-04-04T08:08:36Z")

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the "exclude files" option will accept path with wildcard ?

eg. '/opt/apps/logs/\*/weblogic/ \*.log'

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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:** [May 2, 2019, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-exclude-files/174704/6 "2019-05-02T08:09:17Z")

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