# Beats dahsboards error \[ esaggs\] JSON parse: Unexpected chararter at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 5, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-dahsboards-error-esaggs-json-parse-unexpected-chararter-at-line-1-column-1-of-the-json-data/266343 "2021-03-05T09:51:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheHunter1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thehunter1/32/80190_2.png) [@TheHunter1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TheHunter1)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-dahsboards-error-esaggs-json-parse-unexpected-chararter-at-line-1-column-1-of-the-json-data/266343/1 "2021-03-05T09:51:19Z")

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Hello,

I am trying ELK 8.0.0 from code source as dev cluster, and used the same configuration of my prod cluster (Version 7.10.1) but when I installed beats (version 7.11.1) I am getting errors in the dashboards as you can see in the Picture.

When I click on the error, I get :

```auto
error [esaggs] JSON parse: Unexpected chararter at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

```

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/b/db85c8082de9b5820b3f7fb2354316b9af92db27.png)

Is it because beats version 7.11.1 are not compatible with ELK version 8.0.0 ? Or I just don't have enough DATA ?

Thanks for your help

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**Author:** ![TheHunter1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thehunter1/32/80190_2.png) [@TheHunter1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TheHunter1)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-dahsboards-error-esaggs-json-parse-unexpected-chararter-at-line-1-column-1-of-the-json-data/266343/2 "2021-03-05T10:59:00Z")

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I let it run for 1 more hour, and now the error disappeared 🙂  
I Think it means that I had not enough data, but it would be better if it displayed "No data found" in place of "error JSON"

Thanks for all ^ ^

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-dahsboards-error-esaggs-json-parse-unexpected-chararter-at-line-1-column-1-of-the-json-data/266343/3 "2021-03-05T13:25:09Z")

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There error normally better explained, but this is a development branch which is almost a year away from targeted release so it will get better.

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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:** [April 2, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-dahsboards-error-esaggs-json-parse-unexpected-chararter-at-line-1-column-1-of-the-json-data/266343/4 "2021-04-02T13:25:15Z")

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