# Exiting: Error in initing input: No paths were defined for input accessing 'filebeat.inputs.0' (source:'filebeat.yml') **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [October 28, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-in-initing-input-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-source-filebeat-yml/205550 "2019-10-28T21:08:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mridula\_guuds](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mridula_guuds/32/56734_2.png) [@mridula\_guuds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mridula_guuds)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-in-initing-input-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-source-filebeat-yml/205550/1 "2019-10-28T21:08:08Z")
[d3p@d3papp-po-a1p filebeat]$ ./filebeat -e -d "\*" 2019-10-28T21:06:20.221Z INFO instance/beat.go:492 Home path: [/home/d3p/filebeat] Config path: [/home/d3p/filebeat] Data path: [/home/d3p/filebeat/data] Logs path: [/home/d3p/filebeat/logs] 2019-10-28T21:06:20.221Z DEBUG [beat] instance/beat.go:519 Beat metadata path: /home/d3p/filebeat/data/meta.json 2019-10-28T21:06:20.221Z INFO instance/beat.go:499 Beat UUID: f9a5d906-a223-47cf-9574-f1e23f4f903a 2019-10-28T21:06:20.221Z INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:716 Beat info {"system\_info": {"beat": {"path": {"config": "/home/d3p/filebeat", "data": "/home/d3p/filebeat/data", "home": "/home/d3p/filebeat", "logs": "/home/d3p/filebeat/logs"}, "type": "filebeat", "uuid": "f9a5d906-a223-47cf-9574-f1e23f4f903a"}}} 2019-10-28T21:06:20.221Z INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:725 Build info {"system\_info": {"build": {"commit": "a04cb664d5fbd4b1aab485d1766f3979c138fd38", "libbeat": "6.3.0", "time": "2018-06-11T22:34:44.000Z", "version": "6.3.0"}}} 2019-10-28T21:06:20.221Z INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:728 Go runtime info{"system\_info": {"go": {"os":"linux","arch":"amd64","max\_procs":4,"version":"go1.9.4"}}} 2019-10-28T21:06:20.222Z INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:732 Host info {"system\_info": {"host": {"architecture":"x86\_64","boot\_time":"2019-07-16T03:06:00Z","containerized":true,"hostname":"[d3papp-po-a1p.sys.comcast.net](http://d3papp-po-a1p.sys.comcast.net)","ips":["127.0.0.1/8","::1/128","10.22.206.14/23","2001:558:1004:68f:10:22:206:14/64","fe80::250:56ff:feb1:4ed2/64"],"kernel\_version":"2.6.32-754.17.1.el6.x86\_64","mac\_addresses":["00:50:56:b1:4e:d2"],"os":{"family":"redhat","platform":"centos","name":"CentOS","version":"6.10 (Final)","major":6,"minor":10,"patch":0,"codename":"Final"},"timezone":"UTC","timezone\_offset\_sec":0}}} 2019-10-28T21:06:20.223Z INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:761 Process info {"system\_info": {"process": {"capabilities": {"inheritable":null,"permitted":null,"effective":null,"bounding":["chown","dac\_override","dac\_read\_search","fowner","fsetid","kill","setgid","setuid","setpcap","linux\_immutable","net\_bind\_service","net\_broadcast","net\_admin","net\_raw","ipc\_lock","ipc\_owner","sys\_module","sys\_rawio","sys\_chroot","sys\_ptrace","sys\_pacct","sys\_admin","sys\_boot","sys\_nice","sys\_resource","sys\_time","sys\_tty\_config","mknod","lease","audit\_write","audit\_control","setfcap","mac\_override","mac\_admin","syslog","wake\_alarm","block\_suspend","audit\_read","38","39","40","41","42","43","44","45","46","47","48","49","50","51","52","53","54","55","56","57","58","59","60","61","62","63"],"ambient":null}, "cwd": "/home/d3p/filebeat", "exe": "/home/d3p/filebeat/filebeat", "name": "filebeat", "pid": 14275, "ppid": 10225, "seccomp": {"mode":""}, "start\_time": "2019-10-28T21:06:20.030Z"}}} 2019-10-28T21:06:20.223Z INFO instance/beat.go:225 Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 6.3.0 2019-10-28T21:06:20.223Z DEBUG [beat] instance/beat.go:242 Initializing output plugins 2019-10-28T21:06:20.223Z DEBUG [processors] processors/processor.go:49 Processors: 2019-10-28T21:06:20.223Z INFO elasticsearch/client.go:145 Elasticsearch url: [https://96.118.21.228:9200](https://96.118.21.228:9200) 2019-10-28T21:06:20.224Z DEBUG [publish] pipeline/consumer.go:120 start pipeline event consumer 2019-10-28T21:06:20.224Z INFO pipeline/module.go:81 Beat name: [d3papp-po-a1p.sys.comcast.net](http://d3papp-po-a1p.sys.comcast.net) 2019-10-28T21:06:20.224Z INFO instance/beat.go:315 filebeat start running. 2019-10-28T21:06:20.224Z DEBUG [registrar] registrar/registrar.go:92 Registry file set to: /home/d3p/filebeat/data/registry 2019-10-28T21:06:20.224Z INFO registrar/registrar.go:112 Loading registrar data from /home/d3p/filebeat/data/registry 2019-10-28T21:06:20.224Z INFO registrar/registrar.go:123 States Loaded from registrar: 2 2019-10-28T21:06:20.224Z INFO crawler/crawler.go:48 Loading Inputs: 1 2019-10-28T21:06:20.224Z DEBUG [registrar] registrar/registrar.go:154 Starting Registrar 2019-10-28T21:06:20.225Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:97 Starting metrics logging every 30s 2019-10-28T21:06:20.225Z DEBUG [processors] processors/processor.go:49 Processors: 2019-10-28T21:06:20.226Z INFO crawler/crawler.go:109 Stopping Crawler 2019-10-28T21:06:20.226Z INFO crawler/crawler.go:119 Stopping 0 inputs 2019-10-28T21:06:20.226Z INFO crawler/crawler.go:135 Crawler stopped 2019-10-28T21:06:20.226Z INFO registrar/registrar.go:243 Stopping Registrar 2019-10-28T21:06:20.226Z INFO registrar/registrar.go:169 Ending Registrar 2019-10-28T21:06:20.226Z DEBUG [registrar] registrar/registrar.go:263 Write registry file: /home/d3p/filebeat/data/registry 2019-10-28T21:06:20.227Z DEBUG [publish] pipeline/client.go:131 client: closing acker 2019-10-28T21:06:20.227Z DEBUG [publish] pipeline/client.go:133 client: done closing acker 2019-10-28T21:06:20.227Z DEBUG [publish] pipeline/client.go:137 client: cancelled 0 events 2019-10-28T21:06:20.235Z DEBUG [registrar] registrar/registrar.go:290 Registry file updated. 2 states written. 2019-10-28T21:06:20.237Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:132 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":10,"time":{"ms":14}},"total":{"ticks":20,"time":{"ms":28},"value":20},"user":{"ticks":10,"time":{"ms":14}}},"info":{"ephemeral\_id":"d1410465-c6d0-40c6-abe5-7e04fe76f048","uptime":{"ms":34}},"memstats":{"gc\_next":4194304,"memory\_alloc":1518656,"memory\_total":3247456,"rss":13115392}},"filebeat":{"harvester":{"open\_files":0,"running":0}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"output":{"type":"elasticsearch"},"pipeline":{"clients":0,"events":{"active":0}}},"registrar":{"states":{"current":2},"writes":1},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":4},"load":{"1":0.25,"15":0.19,"5":0.22,"norm":{"1":0.0625,"15":0.0475,"5":0.055}}}}}} 2019-10-28T21:06:20.237Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:133 Uptime: 36.010559ms 2019-10-28T21:06:20.237Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:110 Stopping metrics logging. 2019-10-28T21:06:20.237Z INFO instance/beat.go:321 filebeat stopped. 2019-10-28T21:06:20.237Z ERROR instance/beat.go:691 Exiting: Error in initing input: No paths were defined for input accessing 'filebeat.inputs.0' (source:'filebeat.yml') Exiting: Error in initing input: No paths were defined for input accessing 'filebeat.inputs.0' (source:'filebeat.yml') ---
**Author:** ![kvch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kvch/32/72058_2.png) [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-in-initing-input-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-source-filebeat-yml/205550/2 "2019-10-29T11:02:48Z")
Could you please share your configuration and format it using ``? ---
**Author:** ![mridula\_guuds](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mridula_guuds/32/56734_2.png) [@mridula\_guuds](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mridula_guuds)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-in-initing-input-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-source-filebeat-yml/205550/3 "2019-10-30T22:16:19Z")
It worked after removing elastic search configuration and adding only logstash. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-in-initing-input-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-source-filebeat-yml/205550/4 "2019-11-27T22:20:35Z")
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