# Exiting: Failed to create Beat meta file: open /usr/share/heartbeat/data/meta.json.new: permission denied

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**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [September 21, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-failed-to-create-beat-meta-file-open-usr-share-heartbeat-data-meta-json-new-permission-denied/284717 "2021-09-21T11:58:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![WookWook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WookWook](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WookWook)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-failed-to-create-beat-meta-file-open-usr-share-heartbeat-data-meta-json-new-permission-denied/284717/1 "2021-09-21T11:58:36Z")

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I setup Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes on Openshift 4.6. Right now with the following services (Elasticsearch/Kibana/Filebeat)

I am now failing to get Heartbeat running. I had it running on another Testcluster without any issues.

`> Exiting: Failed to create Beat meta file: open /usr/share/heartbeat/data/meta.json.new: permission denied`

```auto
apiVersion: beat.k8s.elastic.co/v1beta1

kind: Beat
metadata:
  name: heartbeat
spec:
  type: heartbeat
  version: 7.13.0
  elasticsearchRef:
    name: elasticsearch
  config:
    heartbeat.monitors:
    - type: tcp
      schedule: '@every 5s'
      hosts: ["elasticsearch-es-http.elastic.svc:9200"]
    - type: tcp
      schedule: '@every 5s'
      hosts: ["kibana-kb-http.elastic.svc:5601"]
  deployment:
    replicas: 1
    podTemplate:
      spec:
        serviceAccountName: heartbeat
        securityContext:
          runAsUser: 0

```

I found this [Grant privileged permissions to Beats | Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes [1.8] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-openshift-beats.html)  
but the file path doesnt exist on the worker nodes

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-failed-to-create-beat-meta-file-open-usr-share-heartbeat-data-meta-json-new-permission-denied/284717/2 "2021-09-21T23:06:08Z")

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Just so I'm following, are you using ECK here?

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**Author:** ![WookWook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WookWook](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WookWook)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-failed-to-create-beat-meta-file-open-usr-share-heartbeat-data-meta-json-new-permission-denied/284717/3 "2021-09-22T07:29:06Z")

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Ah sorry, I edited the first post. Yes it is Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes 1.7.1

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**Author:** ![WookWook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WookWook](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WookWook)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-failed-to-create-beat-meta-file-open-usr-share-heartbeat-data-meta-json-new-permission-denied/284717/4 "2021-09-24T07:57:15Z")

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I setup Metricbeat also now. Just working fine. Only Heartbeat I have some trouble.

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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:** [October 22, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-failed-to-create-beat-meta-file-open-usr-share-heartbeat-data-meta-json-new-permission-denied/284717/5 "2021-10-22T09:58:06Z")

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