# Exiting: 1 error: 1 error: missing required field accessing '0.perfmon.counters'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-1-error-missing-required-field-accessing-0-perfmon-counters/109641>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-1-error-missing-required-field-accessing-0-perfmon-counters/109641 "2017-11-29T20:41:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-1-error-missing-required-field-accessing-0-perfmon-counters/109641/1 "2017-11-29T20:41:37Z")

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I trying to use metricbeat 6.0.0 (windows64)

```
C:\Program Files\metricbeat>metricbeat.exe test config
Config OK

C:\Program Files\metricbeat>metricbeat.exe test output
elasticsearch: http://elasticsearch.xxxxx.local:9200...
  parse url... ←[32mOK
←[0m connection...
    parse host... ←[32mOK
←[0m dns lookup... ←[32mOK
←[0m addresses: 10.52.223.137
    dial up... ←[32mOK
←[0m TLS... ←[33mWARN ←[0msecure connection disabled
  talk to server... ←[32mOK
←[0m version: 6.0.0

C:\Program Files\metricbeat>

```

when I try to start metricbeat it fails to start:

> C:\Program Files\metricbeat\>metricbeat.exe -e  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.739659 metrics.go:23: INFO Metrics logging every 30s  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.739659 beat.go:426: INFO Home path: [C:\Program Files\metric  
> beat] Config path: [C:\Program Files\metricbeat] Data path: [C:\Program Files\me  
> tricbeat\data] Logs path: [C:\Program Files\metricbeat\logs]  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.740659 beat.go:433: INFO Beat UUID: 98c37d7a-d974-4704-98f8-  
> bcf83bd2a136  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.740659 beat.go:192: INFO Setup Beat: metricbeat; Version: 6.  
> 0.0  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.740659 client.go:123: INFO Elasticsearch url: [http://elastic](http://elastic)  
> search.xxxxxx.local:9200  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.740659 module.go:80: INFO Beat name: wcmisd1044  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.741659 beat.go:260: INFO metricbeat start running.  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.750659 system\_windows.go:35: INFO Metricbeat process and sys  
> tem info: {"OSVersion":{"Major":6,"Minor":1,"Build":7601},"Arch":"amd64","NumCPU  
> ":8,"User":{"SID":"S-1-5-21-1476410021-4119156849-3415781353-6541","Account":"dc  
> horine","Domain":"UFTMASTERAD","Type":1},"ProcessPrivs":{"SeBackupPrivilege":{"e  
> nabled":false},"SeChangeNotifyPrivilege":{"enabled\_by\_default":true,"enabled":tr  
> ue},"SeCreateGlobalPrivilege":{"enabled\_by\_default":true,"enabled":true},"SeCrea  
> tePagefilePrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege":{"enabled  
> ":false},"SeDebugPrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeImpersonatePrivilege":{"enabled  
> \_by\_default":true,"enabled":true},"SeIncreaseBasePriorityPrivilege":{"enabled":f  
> alse},"SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeIncreaseWorkingSetPrivileg  
> e":{"enabled":false},"SeLoadDriverPrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeMachineAccount  
> Privilege":{"enabled":false},"SeManageVolumePrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeProf  
> ileSingleProcessPrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege":{"enabl  
> ed":false},"SeRestorePrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeSecurityPrivilege":{"enable  
> d":false},"SeShutdownPrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeSystemEnvironmentPrivilege"  
> :{"enabled":false},"SeSystemProfilePrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeSystemtimePri  
> vilege":{"enabled":false},"SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeTimeZo  
> nePrivilege":{"enabled":false},"SeUndockPrivilege":{"enabled":false}}}  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.753659 system\_windows.go:67: INFO SeDebugPrivilege is now en  
> abled. SeDebugPrivilege=(Enabled)  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.753659 cfgwarn.go:11: WARN BETA: The perfmon metricset is be  
> ta  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.753659 metrics.go:51: INFO Total non-zero values: beat.mems  
> tats.gc\_next=4194304 beat.memstats.memory\_alloc=2516984 beat.memstats.memory\_tot  
> al=4418136 libbeat.config.module.running=0 libbeat.output.type=elasticsearch lib  
> beat.pipeline.clients=2 libbeat.pipeline.events.active=0  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.753659 metrics.go:52: INFO Uptime: 562ms  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.753659 beat.go:268: INFO metricbeat stopped.  
> 2017/11/29 20:31:48.753659 beat.go:625: CRIT Exiting: 1 error: 1 error: missing  
> required field accessing '0.perfmon.counters' (source:'C:\Program Files\metricbe  
> at\modules.d\windows.yml')  
> Exiting: 1 error: 1 error: missing required field accessing '0.perfmon.counters'  
> (source:'C:\Program Files\metricbeat\modules.d\windows.yml')
> 
> C:\Program Files\metricbeat\>

this is happens after I rename `windows.yml.disabled` into `windows.yml` inside of `module.d` directory, if I rename it back to disable, metricbeat starts without any issues...

Please advise.

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-1-error-missing-required-field-accessing-0-perfmon-counters/109641/2 "2017-11-30T18:44:15Z")

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There are no performance counters configured in the [default config file](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/v6.0.0/metricbeat/modules.d/windows.yml.disabled#L4) for the windows module. So if you enable the module you'll need to [tell it what you want to monitor](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-metricset-windows-perfmon.html).

Perhaps the module should have some example already configured like is shown in the docs.

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**Author:** ![maddin2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maddin2016/32/16599_2.png) [@maddin2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maddin2016)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-1-error-missing-required-field-accessing-0-perfmon-counters/109641/3 "2017-12-01T10:51:10Z")

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👍 I would add these 2 counters from the docs.

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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 29, 2017, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-1-error-1-error-missing-required-field-accessing-0-perfmon-counters/109641/4 "2017-12-29T10:51:16Z")

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