# Auditbeat Error : failed to open audit netlink socket: bind failed: operation not permitted

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-failed-to-open-audit-netlink-socket-bind-failed-operation-not-permitted/213427>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [December 31, 2019, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-failed-to-open-audit-netlink-socket-bind-failed-operation-not-permitted/213427 "2019-12-31T09:42:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![irobot678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@irobot678](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/irobot678)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-failed-to-open-audit-netlink-socket-bind-failed-operation-not-permitted/213427/1 "2019-12-31T09:42:23Z")

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Hi, I'm using ELK stack of version 7.5.1 with x-pack installed and while running auditbeat showing the following error

```
 2020-01-02T12:18:41.065+0530	ERROR	instance/beat.go:916	Exiting: 1 error: 1 error: failed to create audit client: failed to open audit netlink socket: bind failed: operation not permitted

 Exiting: 1 error: 1 error: failed to create audit client: failed to open audit netlink socket: bind failed: operation not permitted

```

Please help me solve it.

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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:** [January 21, 2020, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-failed-to-open-audit-netlink-socket-bind-failed-operation-not-permitted/213427/2 "2020-01-21T09:51:31Z")

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