# Error on filebeat to monitor systemlogs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-on-filebeat-to-monitor-systemlogs/244196>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 7, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-on-filebeat-to-monitor-systemlogs/244196 "2020-08-07T16:10:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![javig12](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javig12/32/73523_2.png) [@javig12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javig12)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-on-filebeat-to-monitor-systemlogs/244196/1 "2020-08-07T16:10:32Z")

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Hello community,

Recently I've installed filebeat to monitore systemlogs on linux server, and have this error:

2020-08-07T11:57:14.546-0400 INFO instance/beat.go:280 Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 6.8.11  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.548-0400 INFO elasticsearch/client.go:164 Elasticsearch url: [http://192.168.0.14:9200](http://192.168.0.14:9200)  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.557-0400 INFO [publisher] pipeline/module.go:110 Beat name: linuxserver  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.568-0400 INFO instance/beat.go:402 filebeat start running.  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.570-0400 INFO registrar/registrar.go:134 Loading registrar data from /var/lib/filebeat/registry  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.569-0400 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:117 Starting metrics logging every 30s  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.571-0400 INFO registrar/registrar.go:141 States Loaded from registrar: 0  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.575-0400 INFO crawler/crawler.go:72 Loading Inputs: 1  
**2020-08-07T11:57:14.576-0400 ERROR cfgfile/reload.go:223 Error loading config: invalid config: yaml: line 9: could not find expected ':'**  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.577-0400 INFO crawler/crawler.go:139 Stopping Crawler  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.577-0400 INFO crawler/crawler.go:149 Stopping 0 inputs  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.577-0400 INFO crawler/crawler.go:165 Crawler stopped  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.577-0400 INFO registrar/registrar.go:356 Stopping Registrar  
2020-08-07T11:57:14.577-0400 INFO registrar/registrar.go:282 Ending Registrar

so you have any suggestion on my error?

regards.

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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:** [September 4, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-on-filebeat-to-monitor-systemlogs/244196/2 "2020-09-04T18:10:34Z")

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