# Data ingestion continuously

**URL:** <https://community.influxdata.com/t/data-ingestion-continuously/12035>\
**Category:** Telegraf\
**Tags:** telegraf\
**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/data-ingestion-continuously/12035 "2019-11-22T12:07:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cata](https://community.influxdata.com/u/cata)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/data-ingestion-continuously/12035/1 "2019-11-22T12:07:17Z")

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Hello,

I have a sistem that is sending me csv files every minutes into a folder .  
I would like to insert all this data into InfluxDb. My ideea was to use telegraf csv plugin , to listen to this folder and to send the date to the influxDb.  
My data are something like that :

Colum1,Date,Column3,Column4,Column5,ExcelTimestamp,Column6,Column7  
888,18/10/2019 8:12:0,0,88,8.16884381E-007,43756.34166741,1.67752512E-006,4169  
Using telegraf plugin i did not handle to use any of my date : Date or ExcelTimestamp , to be used like  
csv\_timestamp\_column=“Date” and csv\_timestamp\_format = “18/10/2019 8:12:0”.  
So for this reason i let the csv\_timestamp\_column ="" and csv\_timestamp\_format =“unix” and is generating for me a timestamp.  
But because my file are not moved after the insertion into the InfluxDb , the telegraf is reading coninuously this files and inserted into Influx.  
My question is , it is a way to know or to move the files after the telegraf is inserting them ?  
Or maybe a suggestion to use one of my date from the files , like that are uniq and even if telegraf is reading them it will not be inserted into the db .  
Any suggestion is appreciate.  
Thank you.

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**Author:** ![rawkode](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/rawkode/32/5161_2.png) [@rawkode](https://community.influxdata.com/u/rawkode)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/data-ingestion-continuously/12035/2 "2019-11-23T13:33:33Z")

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If you use the `tail` plugin instead of `file`, you won’t reprocess the files at each interval. I think this is the quickest solution for your problem 👌

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**Author:** ![cata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cata](https://community.influxdata.com/u/cata)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/data-ingestion-continuously/12035/3 "2019-11-25T08:55:26Z")

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It’s exactly what I’ve needed. Thank you very much for your help.