# Error initializing beat: error loading config file: stat filebeat.yml: no such file or directory

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-beat-error-loading-config-file-stat-filebeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/273415>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 19, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-beat-error-loading-config-file-stat-filebeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/273415 "2021-05-19T14:13:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marc\_Aurnold](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marc_aurnold/32/81420_2.png) [@Marc\_Aurnold](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marc_Aurnold)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-beat-error-loading-config-file-stat-filebeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/273415/1 "2021-05-19T14:13:15Z")

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Hey Teams Elasticsearch,

When I am running this command:  
./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml

output:  
-bash: ./filebeat: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

I would like to know which advise can help me to solve this issue

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-beat-error-loading-config-file-stat-filebeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/273415/2 "2021-05-19T21:30:04Z")

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Hi! Thanks for posting the question here. Could you check if the Filebeat you downloaded matches your operation system please? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Marc\_Aurnold](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marc_aurnold/32/81420_2.png) [@Marc\_Aurnold](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marc_Aurnold)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-beat-error-loading-config-file-stat-filebeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/273415/3 "2021-05-20T08:22:05Z")

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Filebeat 7.10.2 is compatible with ubuntu 20.04

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-beat-error-loading-config-file-stat-filebeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/273415/4 "2021-05-20T14:28:31Z")

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Thanks! Is the Linux 64-bit the one you downloaded? [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.10.2-linux-x86\_64.tar.gz](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.10.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-beat-error-loading-config-file-stat-filebeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/273415/5 "2021-06-17T16:28:44Z")

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