# "Error initializing Kubernetes metadata enricher"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-kubernetes-metadata-enricher/208893>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-kubernetes-metadata-enricher/208893 "2019-11-21T13:40:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![tkzv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tkzv/32/57319_2.png) [@tkzv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tkzv)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-kubernetes-metadata-enricher/208893/1 "2019-11-21T13:40:29Z")

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When I run Metricbeat as a service on a Windows node of a Kubernetes cluster, I get multiple errors in the log:

ERROR util/kubernetes.go:106 Error initializing Kubernetes metadata enricher: unable to build kube config due to error: invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided

Metricbeat version 7.4.0, kubectl version 1.14.3.

What is wrong? What am I missing? What should I do to fix it?

> **metricbeat.yml**
>
> ```auto
> metricbeat.config.modules:
> path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
> reload.enabled: true
> setup.template.settings:
> index.number_of_shards: 1
> index.codec: best_compression
> setup.dashboards.enabled: false
> setup.kibana:
> host: "172.30.0.52:5601"
> output.elasticsearch:
> hosts: ["172.30.0.52:9200"]
> processors:
> - add_host_metadata: ~
> - add_cloud_metadata: ~
> logging.level: info
> logging.files.path: 'C:\Program Files\metricbeat\logs'
> 
> ```

> **kubernetes.yml**
>
> ```auto
> - module: kubernetes
> metricsets:
> - node
> - system
> - pod
> - container
> - volume
> period: 10s
> hosts: ["localhost:10250"]
> 
> ```

> **system.yml**
>
> ```auto
> - module: system
> period: 10s
> metricsets:
> - cpu
> - memory
> - network
> - process
> - process_summary
> process.include_top_n:
> by_cpu: 5 # include top 5 processes by CPU
> by_memory: 5 # include top 5 processes by memory
> - module: system
> period: 1m
> metricsets:
> - filesystem
> - fsstat
> processors:
> - drop_event.when.regexp:
> system.filesystem.mount_point: '^/(sys|cgroup|proc|dev|etc|host|lib)($|/)'
> - module: system
> period: 15m
> metricsets:
> - uptime
> 
> ```

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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:** [December 19, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-initializing-kubernetes-metadata-enricher/208893/2 "2019-12-19T13:40:30Z")

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