# fact\_caching override in playbook? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [September 3, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fact-caching-override-in-playbook/33740 "2020-09-03T21:40:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aprameya\_NDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Aprameya\_NDS](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Aprameya_NDS)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fact-caching-override-in-playbook/33740/1 "2020-09-03T21:40:27Z")
Hi Team, I have a project which uses ansible to run traffic tools on a given set of hosts. I have fact\_caching enabled. While configuring and starting the traffic there are at times where the facts in the system changes dynamically for which i need to freshly gather facts but due to fact\_caching mechanism i get the cached output. Can we override fact\_caching in the playbook dynamically based on requirements? Regards Sai ---
**Author:** ![Kuldip\_Madnani1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@Kuldip\_Madnani1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kuldip_Madnani1)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fact-caching-override-in-playbook/33740/2 "2020-09-03T23:08:15Z")
You can run this as a pre step to clear the cache: rm ${fact\_caching\_connection}/\* where fact\_caching\_connection can be configured in your ansible.cfg ---
**Author:** ![Nuno\_Jordao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Nuno\_Jordao](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nuno_Jordao)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fact-caching-override-in-playbook/33740/3 "2020-09-05T04:10:08Z")
Maybe the clear\_facts meta module and a new fact gathering may work in your case? [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/meta\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/meta_module.html)