# Unique File Identifier in Filebeat

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unique-file-identifier-in-filebeat/242507
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 24, 2020, 11:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unique-file-identifier-in-filebeat/242507 "2020-07-24T11:54:36Z")
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### Author: ![pulkit007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5e9695/32.png) [@pulkit007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pulkit007)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unique-file-identifier-in-filebeat/242507/3 "2020-07-27T08:59:10Z")

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I am struggling with Filebeat processing all logs again for every Pod Restart in Kubernetes.

I have shared my problem here : [Duplicate Entries in Filebeat Registry File For Kubernetes Pod Restart](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-entries-in-filebeat-registry-file-for-kubernetes-pod-restart/242564)

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