# Exiting: Error while initializing input: can not convert 'string' into 'bool' accessing 'filebeat.inputs.0.enabled' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml') **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [May 27, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-while-initializing-input-can-not-convert-string-into-bool-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-enabled-source-etc-filebeat-filebeat-yml/182841 "2019-05-27T05:51:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iiqq8888](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iiqq8888/32/47318_2.png) [@iiqq8888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iiqq8888)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-while-initializing-input-can-not-convert-string-into-bool-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-enabled-source-etc-filebeat-filebeat-yml/182841/1 "2019-05-27T05:51:26Z")
Hi All I am new ELK user, and I install Elasticsearch 7.1,Kibana 7.1,Filebeat 7.1 in Redhat 6.8 by vmware. I use default config of elasticsearch.yml ,kibana. filebeat.yml below # configuration file. #=========================== Filebeat inputs ============================= filebeat.inputs: - type: log enabled: ture #============================= Filebeat modules =============================== filebeat.config.modules: # Glob pattern for configuration loading path: ${path.config}/modules.d/\*.yml # Set to true to enable config reloading reload.enabled: false # Period on which files under path should be checked for changes #reload.period: 10s #==================== Elasticsearch template setting ========================== setup.template.settings: index.number\_of\_shards: 1 #index.codec: best\_compression #\_source.enabled: false #================================ General ===================================== # The name of the shipper that publishes the network data. It can be used to group # all the transactions sent by a single shipper in the web interface. #name: # The tags of the shipper are included in their own field with each # transaction published. #tags: ["service-X", "web-tier"] # Optional fields that you can specify to add additional information to the # output. #fields: # env: staging #============================== Dashboards ===================================== # These settings control loading the sample dashboards to the Kibana index. Loading # the dashboards is disabled by default and can be enabled either by setting the # options here or by using the `setup` command. #setup.dashboards.enabled: false # The URL from where to download the dashboards archive. By default this URL # has a value which is computed based on the Beat name and version. For released # versions, this URL points to the dashboard archive on the [artifacts.elastic.co](http://artifacts.elastic.co) # website. #setup.dashboards.url: #============================== Kibana ===================================== # Starting with Beats version 6.0.0, the dashboards are loaded via the Kibana API. # This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration. setup.kibana: # Kibana Host # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 5601) # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: [http://localhost:5601/path](http://localhost:5601/path) # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601 host: "192.168.108.170:5601" # Kibana Space ID # ID of the Kibana Space into which the dashboards should be loaded. By default, # the Default Space will be used. #space.id: #============================= Elastic Cloud ================================== # These settings simplify using filebeat with the Elastic Cloud ([https://cloud.elastic.co/](https://cloud.elastic.co/)). # The cloud.id setting overwrites the `output.elasticsearch.hosts` and # `setup.kibana.host` options. # You can find the `cloud.id` in the Elastic Cloud web UI. #cloud.id: # The cloud.auth setting overwrites the `output.elasticsearch.username` and # `output.elasticsearch.password` settings. The format is `:`. #cloud.auth: #================================ Outputs ===================================== # Configure what output to use when sending the data collected by the beat. #-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------ output.elasticsearch: # Array of hosts to connect to. hosts: ["[http://192.168.108.170:9200](http://192.168.108.170:9200)"] # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials. #protocol: "https" #username: "elastic" #password: "changeme" #----------------------------- Logstash output -------------------------------- #output.logstash: # The Logstash hosts #hosts: ["localhost:5044"] # Optional SSL. By default is off. # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications #ssl.certificate\_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"] # Certificate for SSL client authentication #ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem" # Client Certificate Key #ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key" # Configure processors to enhance or manipulate events generated by the beat. processors: - add\_host\_metadata: ~ - add\_cloud\_metadata: ~ I can run elasticsearch and kibana ok in browser but filebeat can not the error message below 2019-05-27T13:39:06.232+0800 INFO [publisher] pipeline/module.go:97 Beat name: localhost.localdomain 2019-05-27T13:39:06.233+0800 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:117 Starting metrics logging every 30s 2019-05-27T13:39:06.233+0800 INFO instance/beat.go:391 filebeat start running. 2019-05-27T13:39:06.233+0800 INFO registrar/registrar.go:145 2019-05-27T13:39:06.254+0800 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Uptime: 53.891854ms 2019-05-27T13:39:06.254+0800 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:130 Stopping metrics logging. 2019-05-27T13:39:06.254+0800 INFO instance/beat.go:401 filebeat stopped. 2019-05-27T13:39:06.254+0800 ERROR instance/beat.go:802 Exiting: Error while initializing input: can not convert 'string' into 'bool' accessing 'filebeat.inputs.0.enabled' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml') Exiting: Error while initializing input: can not convert 'string' into 'bool' accessing 'filebeat.inputs.0.enabled' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml') I try filebeat 1 week, please help me. thanks ---
**Author:** ![iiqq8888](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iiqq8888/32/47318_2.png) [@iiqq8888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iiqq8888)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-while-initializing-input-can-not-convert-string-into-bool-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-enabled-source-etc-filebeat-filebeat-yml/182841/2 "2019-05-27T06:11:51Z")
Hi All this my debug log filebeat -e -d "\*" 2019-05-27T14:04:31.551+0800 INFO instance/beat.go:571 Home path: [/usr/share/filebeat] Config path: [/etc/filebeat] Data path: [/var/lib/filebeat] Logs path: [/var/log/filebeat] 2019-05-27T14:04:31.551+0800 DEBUG [beat] instance/beat.go:623 Beat metadata path: /var/lib/filebeat/meta.json 2019-05-27T14:04:31.551+0800 INFO instance/beat.go:579 Beat ID: 510d31f3-5c67-4c57-8955-f70faec37950 2019-05-27T14:04:31.551+0800 INFO [index-management.ilm] ilm/ilm.go:129 Policy name: filebeat-7.1.0 2019-05-27T14:04:31.554+0800 DEBUG [filters] add\_cloud\_metadata/add\_cloud\_metadata.go:164 add\_cloud\_metadata: starting to fetch metadata, timeout=3s 2019-05-27T14:04:31.636+0800 DEBUG [filters] add\_cloud\_metadata/add\_cloud\_metadata.go:196 add\_cloud\_metadata: received disposition for qcloud after 82.617365ms. result=[provider:qcloud, error=failed requesting qcloud metadata: Get [http://metadata.tencentyun.com/meta-data/instance-id:](http://metadata.tencentyun.com/meta-data/instance-id:) dial tcp: lookup [metadata.tencentyun.com](http://metadata.tencentyun.com) on 8.8.8.8:53: no such host, metadata={}] 2019-05-27T14:04:34.554+0800 DEBUG [filters] add\_cloud\_metadata/add\_cloud\_metadata.go:203 add\_cloud\_metadata: timed-out waiting for all responses 2019-05-27T14:04:34.554+0800 DEBUG [filters] add\_cloud\_metadata/add\_cloud\_metadata.go:167 add\_cloud\_metadata: fetchMetadata ran for 3.000392508s 2019-05-27T14:04:34.554+0800 INFO add\_cloud\_metadata/add\_cloud\_metadata.go:346 add\_cloud\_metadata: hosting provider type not detected. 2019-05-27T14:04:34.554+0800 DEBUG [processors] processors/processor.go:66 Processors: add\_host\_metadata=[netinfo.enabled=[false], cache.ttl=[5m0s]], add\_cloud\_metadata=null 2019-05-27T14:04:34.554+0800 INFO [seccomp] seccomp/seccomp.go:93 Syscall filter could not be installed because the kernel does not support seccomp 2019-05-27T14:04:34.554+0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:827 Beat info {"system\_info": {"beat": {"path": {"config": "/etc/filebeat", "data": "/var/lib/filebeat", "home": "/usr/share/filebeat", "logs": "/var/log/filebeat"}, "type": "filebeat", "uuid": "510d31f3-5c67-4c57-8955-f70faec37950"}}} 2019-05-27T14:04:34.554+0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:836 Build info {"system\_info": {"build": {"commit": "03b3db2a1d9d76fdf10475e829fce436c61901e4", "libbeat": "7.1.0", "time": "2019-05-15T23:59:19.000Z", "version": "7.1.0"}}} 2019-05-27T14:04:34.554+0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:839 Go runtime info {"system\_info": {"go": {"os":"linux","arch":"amd64","max\_procs":2,"version":"go1.11.5"}}} 2019-05-27T14:04:34.555+0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:843 Host info {"system\_info": {"host": {"architecture":"x86\_64","boot\_time":"2019-05-23T13:17:15+08:00","containerized":true,"name":"localhost.localdomain","ip":["127.0.0.1/8","::1/128","192.168.108.170/24","fe80::250:56ff:fea9:ebe8/64"],"kernel\_version":"2.6.32-754.14.2.el6.x86\_64","mac":["00:50:56:a9:eb:e8"],"os":{"family":"redhat","platform":"redhat","name":"Red","version":"6.10 (Santiago)","major":6,"minor":10,"patch":0,"codename":"Santiago"},"timezone":"+08","timezone\_offset\_sec":28800,"id":"1c09ddff4fe72d184d9ea97d00000015"}}} 2019-05-27T14:04:34.556+0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:872 Process info {"system\_info": {"process": {"capabilities": {"inheritable":null,"permitted":["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"],"effective":["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"],"bounding": continued on the next page thanks ---
**Author:** ![iiqq8888](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iiqq8888/32/47318_2.png) [@iiqq8888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iiqq8888)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-while-initializing-input-can-not-convert-string-into-bool-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-enabled-source-etc-filebeat-filebeat-yml/182841/3 "2019-05-27T06:14:34Z")
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plugins 2019-05-27T14:04:34.556+0800 INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:165 Set output.elasticsearch.index to 'filebeat-7.1.0' as ILM is enabled. 2019-05-27T14:04:34.556+0800 INFO elasticsearch/client.go:165 Elasticsearch url: [http://192.168.108.170:9200](http://192.168.108.170:9200) 2019-05-27T14:04:34.556+0800 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/consumer.go:137start pipeline event consumer 2019-05-27T14:04:34.556+0800 INFO [publisher] pipeline/module.go:97 Beat name: localhost.localdomain 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 INFO instance/beat.go:391 filebeat start running. 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:117 Starting metrics logging every 30s 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 DEBUG [test] registrar/migrate.go:159 isFile(/var/lib/filebeat/registry) -\> false 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 DEBUG [test] registrar/migrate.go:159 isFile() -\> false 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 DEBUG [test] registrar/migrate.go:152 isDir(/var/lib/filebeat/registry/filebeat) -\> true 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 DEBUG [test] registrar/migrate.go:159 isFile(/var/lib/filebeat/registry/filebeat/meta.json) -\> true 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 DEBUG [registrar] registrar/migrate.go:51Registry type '0' found 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 DEBUG [registrar] registrar/registrar.go:125 Registry file set to: /var/lib/filebeat/registry/filebeat/data.json 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 INFO registrar/registrar.go:145 Loading registrar data from /var/lib/filebeat/registry/filebeat/data.json 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 INFO registrar/registrar.go:152 States Loaded from registrar: 0 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 INFO crawler/crawler.go:72 Loading Inputs: 1 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 DEBUG [processors] processors/processor.go:66 Processors: 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 INFO crawler/crawler.go:139 Stopping Crawler 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 INFO crawler/crawler.go:149 Stopping 0 inputs 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 INFO crawler/crawler.go:165 Crawler stopped 2019-05-27T14:04:34.557+0800 INFO registrar/registrar.go:367 Stopping Registrar 2019-05-27T14:04:34.558+0800 DEBUG [registrar] registrar/registrar.go:278 Starting Registrar 2019-05-27T14:04:34.558+0800 INFO registrar/registrar.go:293 Ending Registrar 2019-05-27T14:04:34.558+0800 DEBUG [registrar] registrar/registrar.go:411 Write registry file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry/filebeat/data.json 2019-05-27T14:04:34.563+0800 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:149 client: closing acker 2019-05-27T14:04:34.563+0800 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:151 client: done closing acker 2019-05-27T14:04:34.563+0800 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/client.go:155 client: cancelled 0 events 2019-05-27T14:04:34.566+0800 DEBUG [registrar] registrar/registrar.go:404 Registry file updated. 0 states written. 2019-05-27T14:04:34.568+0800 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:152 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":0,"time":{"ms":9}},"total":{"ticks":30,"time":{"ms":39},"value":30},"user":{"ticks":30,"time":{"ms":30}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":4096,"soft":1024},"open":6},"info":{"ephemeral\_id":"99bcb254-3556-4c3e-a13c-877783c4d218","uptime":{"ms":3053}},"memstats":{"gc\_next":4194304,"memory\_alloc":2157688,"memory\_total":6209080,"rss":20471808}},"filebeat":{"harvester":{"open\_files":0,"running":0}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"output":{"type":"elasticsearch"},"pipeline":{"clients":0,"events":{"active":0}}},"registrar":{"states":{"current":0},"writes":{"success":1,"total":1}},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":2},"load":{"1":0.01,"15":0,"5":0.02,"norm":{"1":0.005,"15":0,"5":0.01}}}}}} 2019-05-27T14:04:34.568+0800 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Uptime: 3.055067448s 2019-05-27T14:04:34.568+0800 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:130 Stopping metrics logging. 2019-05-27T14:04:34.568+0800 INFO instance/beat.go:401 filebeat stopped. 2019-05-27T14:04:34.568+0800 ERROR instance/beat.go:802 Exiting: Error while initializing input: can not convert 'string' into 'bool' accessing 'filebeat.inputs.0.enabled' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml') Exiting: Error while initializing input: can not convert 'string' into 'bool' accessing 'filebeat.inputs.0.enabled' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml') thanks ---
**Author:** ![martinr\_ubi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@martinr\_ubi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/martinr_ubi)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-while-initializing-input-can-not-convert-string-into-bool-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-enabled-source-etc-filebeat-filebeat-yml/182841/4 "2019-05-27T09:47:47Z")
> enabled: ture > Exiting: Error while initializing input: can not convert 'string' into 'bool' accessing 'filebeat.inputs.0.enabled' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml') The logs are pretty much dead on. If you're confused by what the 0 means in filebeat.inputs.0.enabled it refers to the index position of the input definition in the list of input definition in your config file. Also please edit your posts and format them correctly so they are readable. code and config and such needs to be formatted with triple back ticks or with the button \. If you check the preview you'll see it will become readable and true to the originals, which is the goal. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-error-while-initializing-input-can-not-convert-string-into-bool-accessing-filebeat-inputs-0-enabled-source-etc-filebeat-filebeat-yml/182841/5 "2019-06-24T09:47:52Z")
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