# Creating beat from Metricbeat **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [December 12, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-beat-from-metricbeat/160586 "2018-12-12T16:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fdmsantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fdmsantos/32/44281_2.png) [@fdmsantos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdmsantos)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-beat-from-metricbeat/160586/1 "2018-12-12T16:50:27Z")
Hello, I'm trying to create a beat based on Metricbeat. I have followed the steps described in [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/creating-beat-from-metricbeat.html#creating-beat-from-metricbeat](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/creating-beat-from-metricbeat.html#creating-beat-from-metricbeat). After doing make update command, the file examplebeat.yml was created (examplebeat is the name of my beat) but when i run the beat (after make command) i get the error: **Exiting: error loading config file: stat beat.yml: no such file or directory** Why the beat tried load beat.yml file and not examplebeat.yml? Another question: if I rename examplebeat.yml to beat.yml, I get another error: **Exiting: one or more modules must be configured** Can you help me? Regards, Fabio Santos ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-beat-from-metricbeat/160586/2 "2018-12-13T08:31:57Z")
Is your code somewhere on a public repo so I could have a quick look? ---
**Author:** ![fdmsantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fdmsantos/32/44281_2.png) [@fdmsantos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdmsantos)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-beat-from-metricbeat/160586/3 "2018-12-13T10:15:46Z")
Hi Ruflin, Thanks for the answer. This is my code: [https://github.com/fdmsantos/examplebeat](http://github) I add a new file with all commands I ran [commands](https://github.com/fdmsantos/examplebeat/blob/master/commands.md) Regards, Fábio Santos ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-beat-from-metricbeat/160586/4 "2018-12-14T09:48:06Z")
One think I spotted is that your main.go file looks a bit different then the one from auditbeat (which is also a metricbeat based Beat): [https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/auditbeat/main.go](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/auditbeat/main.go) Perhaps you can adjust this part and get a cmd file into place? [https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/auditbeat/cmd/root.go](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/auditbeat/cmd/root.go) ---
**Author:** ![fdmsantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fdmsantos/32/44281_2.png) [@fdmsantos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdmsantos)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-beat-from-metricbeat/160586/5 "2018-12-17T11:14:32Z")
Hi @ruflin, Thanks for help. I did changes, but I still got errors. > cmd/root.go:49:45: cannot use runFlags (type \*"[GitHub - spf13/pflag: Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.](http://github.com/spf13/pflag)".FlagSet) as type \*"[github.com/fdmsantos/examplebeat/vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/spf13/pflag](http://github.com/fdmsantos/examplebeat/vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/spf13/pflag)".FlagSet in argument to cmd.GenRootCmdWithRunFlags > cmd/root.go:50:20: cannot use ShowCmd (type \*"[GitHub - spf13/cobra: A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions](http://github.com/spf13/cobra)".Command) as type \*"[github.com/fdmsantos/examplebeat/vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra](http://github.com/fdmsantos/examplebeat/vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra)".Command in argument to RootCmd.Command.AddCommand But I didn't understand. The main.go file and all files were created by following the steps from the documentation. Why i need change them? Regards, Fábio Santos ---
**Author:** ![fdmsantos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fdmsantos/32/44281_2.png) [@fdmsantos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fdmsantos)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-beat-from-metricbeat/160586/6 "2018-12-20T17:57:43Z")
Hi again, I'm really struggling here. I created a new fresh beat based on metricbeat : [https://github.com/fdmsantos/vspherebeat](https://github.com/fdmsantos/vspherebeat) I can't understand my problems. I followed this documentation : [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/creating-beat-from-metricbeat.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/current/creating-beat-from-metricbeat.html) ``` [root@elk-ingress vspherebeat]# ./vspherebeat Exiting: error loading config file: stat beat.yml: no such file or directory [root@elk-ingress vspherebeat]# ``` Why the beat look to beat.yml file and not vspherebeat.yml? The file vspherebeat.yml exists and was created by the command: ``` make update ``` I really apreciate any help. Regards, Fabio Santos ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-beat-from-metricbeat/160586/7 "2019-01-17T18:02:20Z")
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