# CRIT Exiting: Could not start registrar: Error loading state: Error decoding states: json: cannot unmarshal object into Go value of type \[\]file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/crit-exiting-could-not-start-registrar-error-loading-state-error-decoding-states-json-cannot-unmarshal-object-into-go-value-of-type-file/108887
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [November 23, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/crit-exiting-could-not-start-registrar-error-loading-state-error-decoding-states-json-cannot-unmarshal-object-into-go-value-of-type-file/108887 "2017-11-23T12:47:34Z")
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### Author:  [@David\_Montgomery](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Montgomery)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/crit-exiting-could-not-start-registrar-error-loading-state-error-decoding-states-json-cannot-unmarshal-object-into-go-value-of-type-file/108887/1 "2017-11-23T12:47:35Z")
Why? Writing to log to AWS Es as a service. ES..whats the deal? What does that mean? How do I ship to ES using file beat on 16.04?
filebeat:
prospectors:
-
paths:
- "/tmp/upload.log"
- "/var/log/nginx/access.log"
- "/var/log/nginx/error.log"
- "/tmp/upload\_server\_bottle.log"
fields:
type: log
exclude\_lines: ["^._ELB-HealthChecker._$"]
output.elasticsearch:
hosts: ["[https://vpc-es.eu-central-1.es.amazonaws.com:443](https://vpc-es.eu-central-1.es.amazonaws.com:443)"]
protocol: "https"
12Z INFO Home path: [/usr/share/filebeat] Config path: [/etc/filebeat] Data path: [/var/lib/filebeat] Logs path: [/var/log/filebeat]
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO Beat UUID: 3b490c5b-a242-4431-bf12-390b11ced166
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO Metrics logging every 30s
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 6.0.0
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO Elasticsearch url: [https://vpc-es-zen-aws-prod-fmm-logs-xpugakhxsixbsvbsq4hzqrca3q.eu-central-1.es.amazonaws.com:443](https://vpc-es-zen-aws-prod-fmm-logs-xpugakhxsixbsvbsq4hzqrca3q.eu-central-1.es.amazonaws.com:443)
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO Beat name: upload-fmm-10mvvdn
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO filebeat start running.
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO Registry file set to: /var/lib/filebeat/registry
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO Loading registrar data from /var/lib/filebeat/registry
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO Total non-zero values: beat.memstats.gc\_next=4473924 beat.memstats.memory\_alloc=3334312 beat.memstats.memory\_total=3334312 filebeat.harvester.open\_files=0 filebeat.harvester.running=0 libbeat.config.module.running=0 libbeat.output.type$
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO Uptime: 7.810057ms
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z INFO filebeat stopped.
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z CRIT Exiting: Could not start registrar: Error loading state: Error decoding states: json: cannot unmarshal object into Go value of type []file.State
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### Author:  [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/crit-exiting-could-not-start-registrar-error-loading-state-error-decoding-states-json-cannot-unmarshal-object-into-go-value-of-type-file/108887/2 "2017-11-23T20:38:58Z")
Hello,
There is a few things I can see from this output.
```auto
2017-11-23T12:43:12Z CRIT Exiting: Could not start registrar: Error loading state: Error decoding states: json: cannot unmarshal object into Go value of type []file.State
```
I think there is either a problem with the content of the registrar or a permission issue and the error is hidden somehow. Can you add to this issue the output of the following command:
```auto
cat /var/lib/filebeat/registry
```
Also, I haven't tried it. But I believe AWS Elasticsearch **always requires signing request?** , but Filebeat currently doesn't support that.
There is a few related discussion here:
- [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/5466#issuecomment-340450460](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/5466#issuecomment-340450460)
- [How to connect beats to AWS elasticsearch with authentication](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-beats-to-aws-elasticsearch-with-authentication/83465/2?u=pierhugues)
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/crit-exiting-could-not-start-registrar-error-loading-state-error-decoding-states-json-cannot-unmarshal-object-into-go-value-of-type-file/108887/3 "2017-12-14T12:47:55Z")
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