# Auditbeat system module fails to start

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-module-fails-to-start/173582>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [March 23, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-module-fails-to-start/173582 "2019-03-23T08:32:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![cwurm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cwurm/32/34882_2.png) [@cwurm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cwurm)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-module-fails-to-start/173582/4 "2019-04-02T13:32:37Z")

</div>

@Owdaan I think I might know what's going on. How did you download or install Auditbeat?

The `system` module is only contained in the default (free) distribution available from [https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/auditbeat](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/auditbeat).

The pure Apache 2.0 licensed distribution of Auditbeat does not contain the `system` module, only `auditd` and `file_integrity`.

---

_[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-system-module-fails-to-start/173582)._