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Filebeat isn’t shipping the last line of a file
editFilebeat isn’t shipping the last line of a file
editFilebeat uses a newline character to detect the end of an event. If lines are added incrementally to a file that’s being harvested, a newline character is required after the last line, or Filebeat will not read the last line of the file.