# 2 out of the 10 prospectors does not get enabled while starting filebeat agent

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-out-of-the-10-prospectors-does-not-get-enabled-while-starting-filebeat-agent/111538>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [December 13, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-out-of-the-10-prospectors-does-not-get-enabled-while-starting-filebeat-agent/111538 "2017-12-13T10:33:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![FreddyRaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@FreddyRaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FreddyRaj)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-out-of-the-10-prospectors-does-not-get-enabled-while-starting-filebeat-agent/111538/1 "2017-12-13T10:33:18Z")

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Hi Team,

I am noticing an issue in visualizing 2 of my application logs in KIBANA.  
The set up i have is there are 10 application logs in a server out of which 8 prospectors get enabled and logs are sent to be viewed in KIBANA. However when i check FB logs only 8 prospectors are enabled and 2 are not. Thsi is why KIBANA has no logs to be viewed for 2 of my app logs.

Can there be any reason for this behavior for FB to ignore 2 prospectors based on any config issues etc?

Any help would be helpful, team!

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-out-of-the-10-prospectors-does-not-get-enabled-while-starting-filebeat-agent/111538/2 "2017-12-19T02:39:06Z")

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Please provide some more infos:

- Filebeat config
- Filebeat version
- Filebeat logs

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**Author:** ![FreddyRaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@FreddyRaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FreddyRaj)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-out-of-the-10-prospectors-does-not-get-enabled-while-starting-filebeat-agent/111538/3 "2018-01-05T09:44:58Z")

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@ruflin - Thank you for you reply. I was able to fix that issue as there were special characters which had corrupted the filebeat configs.  
Resolved them and now its all good.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/2-out-of-the-10-prospectors-does-not-get-enabled-while-starting-filebeat-agent/111538/4 "2018-02-02T09:44:58Z")

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