diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci_golangci-lint.yml b/.github/workflows/ci_golangci-lint.yml
index 050f22ee1..d45b42eb5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci_golangci-lint.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci_golangci-lint.yml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v3
         with:
           # Optional: version of golangci-lint to use in form of v1.2 or v1.2.3 or `latest` to use the latest version
-          version: v1.49
+          version: v1.50
           # Optional: golangci-lint command line arguments.
           args: --issues-exit-code=1 --timeout 10m
           # Optional: show only new issues if it's a pull request. The default value is `false`.
diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index 9f1713dad..c09c15772 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# see https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/blob/master/.golangci.example.yml
+# https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/blob/master/.golangci.reference.yml
 
 run:
   skip-dirs:
@@ -23,16 +23,22 @@ linters-settings:
 
   govet:
     check-shadowing: true
+
   lll:
     line-length: 140
+
   misspell:
     locale: US
+
   nolintlint:
     allow-leading-space: true # don't require machine-readable nolint directives (i.e. with no leading space)
     allow-unused: false # report any unused nolint directives
     require-explanation: false # don't require an explanation for nolint directives
     require-specific: false # don't require nolint directives to be specific about which linter is being skipped
 
+  interfacebloat:
+    max: 12
+
 linters:
   enable-all: true
   disable:
@@ -59,6 +65,7 @@ linters:
     # - bidichk             # Checks for dangerous unicode character sequences
     # - decorder            # check declaration order and count of types, constants, variables and functions
     # - depguard            # Go linter that checks if package imports are in a list of acceptable packages
+    # - dupword             # checks for duplicate words in the source code
     # - durationcheck       # check for two durations multiplied together
     # - errcheck            # Errcheck is a program for checking for unchecked errors in go programs. These unchecked errors can be critical bugs in some cases
     # - exportloopref       # checks for pointers to enclosing loop variables
@@ -83,6 +90,7 @@ linters:
     # - rowserrcheck        # checks whether Err of rows is checked successfully
     # - sqlclosecheck       # Checks that sql.Rows and sql.Stmt are closed.
     # - staticcheck         # (megacheck): Staticcheck is a go vet on steroids, applying a ton of static analysis checks
+    # - testableexamples    # linter checks if examples are testable (have an expected output)
     # - tenv                # tenv is analyzer that detects using os.Setenv instead of t.Setenv since Go1.17
     # - tparallel           # tparallel detects inappropriate usage of t.Parallel() method in your Go test codes
     # - typecheck           # Like the front-end of a Go compiler, parses and type-checks Go code
@@ -171,6 +179,7 @@ linters:
 
     - prealloc              # Finds slice declarations that could potentially be preallocated
 
+
 issues:
   max-issues-per-linter: 0
   max-same-issues: 10
diff --git a/pkg/acquisition/modules/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go b/pkg/acquisition/modules/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go
index 0efc847e7..e7981863e 100644
--- a/pkg/acquisition/modules/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go
+++ b/pkg/acquisition/modules/cloudwatch/cloudwatch.go
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ func (cw *CloudwatchSource) WatchLogGroupForStreams(out chan LogStreamTailConfig
 						Limit:        cw.Config.DescribeLogStreamsLimit,
 					},
 					func(page *cloudwatchlogs.DescribeLogStreamsOutput, lastPage bool) bool {
-						cw.logger.Tracef("in helper of of DescribeLogStreamsPagesWithContext")
+						cw.logger.Tracef("in helper of DescribeLogStreamsPagesWithContext")
 						for _, event := range page.LogStreams {
 							startFrom = page.NextToken
 							//we check if the stream has been written to recently enough to be monitored
diff --git a/pkg/csconfig/config.go b/pkg/csconfig/config.go
index 484cbdf11..68b84b945 100644
--- a/pkg/csconfig/config.go
+++ b/pkg/csconfig/config.go
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ func DefaultConfigPath(elem ...string) string {
 	return filepath.Join(elem...)
 }
 
-// DefaultDataPath returns the the default path for a data resource.
+// DefaultDataPath returns the default path for a data resource.
 // "elem" parameters are path components relative to the default data directory.
 func DefaultDataPath(elem ...string) string {
 	elem = append([]string{defaultDataDir}, elem...)
diff --git a/pkg/leakybucket/reset_filter.go b/pkg/leakybucket/reset_filter.go
index c7430c3e8..0d50294e9 100644
--- a/pkg/leakybucket/reset_filter.go
+++ b/pkg/leakybucket/reset_filter.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import (
 // ResetFilter allows to kill the bucket (without overflowing), if a particular condition is met.
 // An example would be a scenario to detect aggressive crawlers that *do not* fetch any static resources :
 // type : leaky
-// filter: filter: "evt.Meta.log_type == 'http_access-log'
+// filter: "evt.Meta.log_type == 'http_access-log'
 // reset_filter: evt.Parsed.request endswith '.css'
 // ....
 // Thus, if the bucket receives a request that matches fetching a static resource (here css), it cancels itself