# Error in loading rules to Elastalert **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 17, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-loading-rules-to-elastalert/199817 "2019-09-17T12:11:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maheswari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@Maheswari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maheswari)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-loading-rules-to-elastalert/199817/1 "2019-09-17T12:11:50Z")
I am try to get alerts using elastalert feature. I have used the following command ``` elastalert --verbose --config /temp/elastalert/config.yaml.example ``` Here is the following output INFO:elastalert:Starting up INFO:elastalert:Disabled rules are: INFO:elastalert:Sleeping for 0.999507 seconds INFO:elastalert:Disabled rules are: INFO:elastalert:Sleeping for 0.999673 seconds INFO:elastalert:Background configuration change check run at 2019-09-17 17:33 IST INFO:elastalert:Background alerts thread 0 pending alerts sent at 2019-09-17 17:33 IST INFO:elastalert:Disabled rules are: INFO:elastalert:Sleeping for 0.999808 seconds INFO:elastalert:Background configuration change check run at 2019-09-17 17:33 IST INFO:elastalert:Background alerts thread 0 pending alerts sent at 2019-09-17 17:33 IST INFO:elastalert:Background configuration change check run at 2019-09-17 17:33 IST INFO:elastalert:Disabled rules are: INFO:elastalert:Sleeping for 0.99982 seconds INFO:elastalert:Background alerts thread 0 pending alerts sent at 2019-09-17 17:33 IST INFO:elastalert:Background configuration change check run at 2019-09-17 17:33 IST INFO:elastalert:Disabled rules are: INFO:elastalert:Sleeping for 0.99981 seconds INFO:elastalert:Background alerts thread 0 pending alerts sent at 2019-09-17 17:33 IST INFO:elastalert:Background configuration change check run at 2019-09-17 17:33 IST INFO:elastalert:Disabled rules are: INFO:elastalert:Sleeping for 0.99977 seconds It is unable to load rules...so i have give rule in command as follows elastalert --verbose --config /temp/elastalert/config.yaml.example --rule /temp/elastalert/example\_rules/example\_frequency.yaml Here is the output. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/elastalert", line 11, in load\_entry\_point('elastalert==0.2.1', 'console\_scripts', 'elastalert')() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/elastalert-0.2.1-py3.6.egg/elastalert/elastalert.py", line 2038, in main client = ElastAlerter(args) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/elastalert-0.2.1-py3.6.egg/elastalert/elastalert.py", line 139, in **init** self.rules = self.rules\_loader.load(self.conf, self.args) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/elastalert-0.2.1-py3.6.egg/elastalert/loaders.py", line 114, in load rule = self.load\_configuration(rule\_file, conf, args) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/elastalert-0.2.1-py3.6.egg/elastalert/loaders.py", line 178, in load\_configuration rule = self.load\_yaml(filename) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/elastalert-0.2.1-py3.6.egg/elastalert/loaders.py", line 196, in load\_yaml loaded = self.get\_yaml(filename) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/elastalert-0.2.1-py3.6.egg/elastalert/loaders.py", line 515, in get\_yaml return yaml\_loader(filename) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyStaticConfiguration-0.10.4-py3.6.egg/staticconf/loader.py", line 168, in yaml\_loader return yaml.load(fh, Loader=SafeLoader) or {} File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyYAML-5.1.2-py3.6-linux-x86\_64.egg/yaml/ **init**.py", line 114, in load File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyYAML-5.1.2-py3.6-linux-x86\_64.egg/yaml/constructor.py", line 41, in get\_single\_data File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyYAML-5.1.2-py3.6-linux-x86\_64.egg/yaml/composer.py", line 39, in get\_single\_node File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyYAML-5.1.2-py3.6-linux-x86\_64.egg/yaml/parser.py", line 98, in check\_event File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyYAML-5.1.2-py3.6-linux-x86\_64.egg/yaml/parser.py", line 174, in parse\_document\_start yaml.parser.ParserError: expected '', but found '' in "/temp/elastalert/example\_rules/example\_frequency.yaml", line 20, column 1 pip list Package Version * * * APScheduler 3.6.1 aws-requests-auth 0.4.2 blist 1.3.6 boto3 1.9.228 botocore 1.12.228 certifi 2019.9.11 cffi 1.12.3 chardet 3.0.4 configparser 4.0.2 croniter 0.3.30 defusedxml 0.6.0 docopt 0.6.2 docutils 0.15.2 elastalert 0.2.1 elasticsearch 7.0.0 envparse 0.2.0 exotel 0.1.5 future 0.17.1 idna 2.8 jira 1.0.14 jmespath 0.9.4 jsonschema 2.6.0 mock 3.0.5 oauthlib 3.1.0 pbr 5.4.3 pip 19.2.3 pycparser 2.19 PyJWT 1.7.1 PySocks 1.7.0 PyStaticConfiguration 0.10.4 python-dateutil 2.6.1 python-magic 0.4.15 pytz 2019.2 PyYAML 5.1.2 requests 2.22.0 requests-oauthlib 1.2.0 requests-toolbelt 0.9.1 s3transfer 0.2.1 setuptools 41.2.0 six 1.12.0 stomp.py 4.1.22 texttable 1.6.2 thehive4py 1.6.0 twilio 6.0.0 tzlocal 2.0.0 urllib3 1.25.3 virtualenv 16.7.5 wheel 0.33.6 Kindly, please help me in resolving this issue. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-loading-rules-to-elastalert/199817/2 "2019-10-15T12:17:42Z")
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