Auditbeat OSS fails to start

Please find the error message below, i have installed auditbeat and ELK stack from OSS repository. But failed to start auditbeat, can anyone please help me on this.

`[khasim@vm1] ~]$ sudo systemctl status -l auditbeat.service
● auditbeat.service - Audit the activities of users and processes on your system.
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/auditbeat.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Tue 2020-06-09 02:58:26 UTC; 2s ago
Docs: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/auditbeat
Process: 24888 ExecStart=/usr/share/auditbeat/bin/auditbeat $BEAT_LOG_OPTS $BEAT_CONFIG_OPTS $BEAT_PATH_OPTS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 24888 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01 auditbeat[24888]: 2020-06-09T02:58:26.260Z INFO instance/beat.go:412 auditbeat stopped.
Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01 auditbeat[24888]: 2020-06-09T02:58:26.260Z ERROR instance/beat.go:933 Exiting: 1 error: no metricsets configured for module 'system'
Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01 auditbeat[24888]: Exiting: 1 error: no metricsets configured for module 'system'
Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01 systemd[1]: Unit auditbeat.service entered failed state.
Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01 systemd[1]: auditbeat.service failed.
Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01 systemd[1]: auditbeat.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01 systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for auditbeat.service
Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01 systemd[1]: Failed to start Audit the activities of users and processes on your system..
Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01 systemd[1]: Unit auditbeat.service entered failed state.
Jun 09 02:58:26 dev-toolspod01strong text systemd[1]: auditbeat.service failed.

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(Moving to SIEM category so the right developers may take a look).

Hi,

I see this related issue:

Let me know if that helps you out. If you want the system module that looks to be only in the x-pack basic but free package:

You can download and use that package for your needs though.

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