Exiting: data path already locked by another beat

[artherdent (Wayne Foley)]

Hi, i am new to Elasticstack and am trying to configure filebeat to send logs to logstash-7.6.0. When running ./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml -d "publish"
i am recieving
Exiting: data path already locked by another beat.
I am using basic configuration

filebeat.inputs:

• type: log
  enabled: true
  paths:
  -/home/wayne/project/logstash-tutorial.log

output.logstash:
hosts: ["localhost:5044"]

Any help would be appreciated

[shaunak (Shaunak Kashyap)]

Hi @artherdent,

Welcome to the Elastic community forums!

Do you have another instance of Filebeat running on the same host? Or did you perhaps start a Filebeat instance in the past that somehow got killed abruptly?

Thanks,

Shaunak

[artherdent (Wayne Foley)]

Hi, thank you, that must have been the issue, restarted everything and all good.

[galtryn (Nick Galtry)]

We have just installed filebeat 7.6.1 on a new server and only have one filebeat instance running along with metricbeat and packetbeat. We are also experiencing this issue and have not been able to resolve it.