# Could not test configuration of filebeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-test-configuration-of-filebeat/93159
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 14, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-test-configuration-of-filebeat/93159 "2017-07-14T09:58:03Z")
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### Author:  [@marwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/marwa)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-test-configuration-of-filebeat/93159/1 "2017-07-14T09:58:04Z")
after installing filebeat and configuring the file filebeat.yml to specify the host IP .I tried to test its configuration .
after specifying the location of the installation of filebeat , i run this command to tst its configuration.
./filebeat -configtest -e
but this error occurs
[cmarwa@vds005 filebeat-5.5.0-linux-x86\_64]$ ./filebeat -configtest -e
filebeat2017/07/14 09:57:13.514224 beat.go:339: CRIT Exiting: error loading config file: yaml: line 82: did not find expected key
Exiting: error loading config file: yaml: line 82: did not find expected key
Please any help !!! i want to know if the configuration went well
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-test-configuration-of-filebeat/93159/2 "2017-07-17T22:53:25Z")
Looks like you have a syntax error on line 82. That is, no filebeat is not correctly configured and will refuse to start up.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-test-configuration-of-filebeat/93159/3 "2017-08-14T22:53:29Z")
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