I'm using 5.0.0-alpha4 and I noticed that on some users the service was not able to start up. The following error was in the log file: 2016-08-18T18:22:56-07:00 CRIT Exiting: yaml: control characters are not allowed I noticed that the C:\ProgramData\winlogbeat\winlogbeat.yml file was blank with al…

Corrupt winlogbeat.yml checkpoint file

andrewkroh (Andrew Kroh) August 19, 2016, 1:29am 3

There was one similar report. See Winlogbeat v5 fail to start after upgrade

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