# Exiting: Index management requested but the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** docker, filebeat\ **Created:** [June 17, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-index-management-requested-but-the-elasticsearch-output-is-not-configured-enabled/276274 "2021-06-17T13:46:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Akanksha\_Pandey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/akanksha_pandey/32/89539_2.png) [@Akanksha\_Pandey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akanksha_Pandey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-index-management-requested-but-the-elasticsearch-output-is-not-configured-enabled/276274/1 "2021-06-17T13:46:25Z")
While running `filebeat setup -e` I'm getting this error. Can anyone help me? @Marius_Iversen ```auto 2021-06-17T01:04:54.187-0700 INFO instance/beat.go:665 Home path: [/usr/share/filebeat] Config path: [/etc/filebeat] Data path: [/var/lib/filebeat] Logs path: [/var/log/filebeat] 2021-06-17T01:04:54.188-0700 DEBUG [beat] instance/beat.go:723 Beat metadata path: /var/lib/filebeat/meta.json 2021-06-17T01:04:54.188-0700 INFO instance/beat.go:673 Beat ID: 39605256-578b-442b-b5f1-18a3498f9dac 2021-06-17T01:04:54.192-0700 DEBUG [conditions] conditions/conditions.go:98 New condition contains: map[] 2021-06-17T01:04:54.193-0700 DEBUG [conditions] conditions/conditions.go:98 New condition !contains: map[] 2021-06-17T01:04:54.193-0700 DEBUG [docker] docker/client.go:48 Docker client will negotiate the API version on the first request. 2021-06-17T01:04:54.193-0700 DEBUG [add_cloud_metadata] add_cloud_metadata/providers.go:128 add_cloud_metadata: starting to fetch metadata, timeout=3s 2021-06-17T01:04:54.226-0700 DEBUG [add_docker_metadata] add_docker_metadata/add_docker_metadata.go:90 add_docker_metadata: docker environment detected 2021-06-17T01:04:54.226-0700 DEBUG [add_docker_metadata] docker/watcher.go:211 Start docker containers scanner 2021-06-17T01:04:54.226-0700 DEBUG [add_docker_metadata] docker/watcher.go:374 List containers 2021-06-17T01:04:54.228-0700 DEBUG [add_docker_metadata] docker/watcher.go:264 Fetching events since 2021-06-17 01:04:54.227904356 -0700 PDT m=+0.196088347 2021-06-17T01:04:54.228-0700 DEBUG [kubernetes] add_kubernetes_metadata/kubernetes.go:138 Could not create kubernetes client using in_cluster config: unable to build kube config due to error: invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided, try setting KUBERNETES_MASTER environment variable {"libbeat.processor": "add_kubernetes_metadata"} 2021-06-17T01:04:55.576-0700 DEBUG [add_cloud_metadata] add_cloud_metadata/providers.go:165 add_cloud_metadata: received disposition for aws after 1.381970874s. result=[provider:aws, error=failed requesting aws metadata: Get "http://169.254.169.254/2014-02-25/dynamic/instance-identity/document": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:80: connect: no route to host, metadata={}] 2021-06-17T01:04:55.576-0700 DEBUG [add_cloud_metadata] add_cloud_metadata/providers.go:165 add_cloud_metadata: received disposition for openstack after 1.382505959s. result=[provider:openstack, error=failed requesting openstack metadata: Get "http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:80: connect: no route to host, metadata={}] 2021-06-17T01:04:55.576-0700 DEBUG [add_cloud_metadata] add_cloud_metadata/providers.go:165 add_cloud_metadata: received disposition for openstack after 1.382616906s. result=[provider:openstack, error=failed requesting openstack metadata: Get "https://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/placement/availability-zone": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:443: connect: no route to host, metadata={}] 2021-06-17T01:04:55.576-0700 DEBUG [add_cloud_metadata] add_cloud_metadata/providers.go:165 add_cloud_metadata: received disposition for azure after 1.382720013s. result=[provider:azure, error=failed requesting azure metadata: Get "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/compute?api-version=2017-04-02": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:80: connect: no route to host, metadata={}] 2021-06-17T01:04:55.576-0700 DEBUG [add_cloud_metadata] add_cloud_metadata/providers.go:165 add_cloud_metadata: received disposition for digitalocean after 1.382807215s. result=[provider:digitalocean, error=failed requesting digitalocean metadata: Get "http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1.json": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:80: connect: no route to host, metadata={}] 2021-06-17T01:04:55.576-0700 DEBUG [add_cloud_metadata] add_cloud_metadata/providers.go:165 add_cloud_metadata: received disposition for gcp after 1.382884721s. result=[provider:gcp, error=failed requesting gcp metadata: Get "http://169.254.169.254/computeMetadata/v1/?recursive=true&alt=json": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:80: connect: no route to host, metadata={}] 2021-06-17T01:04:55.576-0700 DEBUG [add_cloud_metadata] add_cloud_metadata/providers.go:131 add_cloud_metadata: fetchMetadata ran for 1.383037397s 2021-06-17T01:04:55.577-0700 INFO [add_cloud_metadata] add_cloud_metadata/add_cloud_metadata.go:101 add_cloud_metadata: hosting provider type not detected. 2021-06-17T01:04:55.577-0700 DEBUG [processors] processors/processor.go:120 Generated new processors: add_host_metadata=[netinfo.enabled=[true], cache.ttl=[5m0s]], condition=!contains: map[], add_cloud_metadata={}, add_docker_metadata=[match_fields=[] match_pids=[process.pid, process.ppid]], add_kubernetes_metadata 2021-06-17T01:04:55.577-0700 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:1014 Beat info {"system_info": {"beat": {"path": {"config": "/etc/filebeat", "data": "/var/lib/filebeat", "home": "/usr/share/filebeat", "logs": "/var/log/filebeat"}, "type": "filebeat", "uuid": "39605256-578b-442b-b5f1-18a3498f9dac"}}} 2021-06-17T01:04:55.577-0700 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:1023 Build info {"system_info": {"build": {"commit": "686ba416a74193f2e69dcfa2eb142f4364a79307", "libbeat": "7.13.2", "time": "2021-06-10T21:04:13.000Z", "version": "7.13.2"}}} 2021-06-17T01:04:55.577-0700 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:1026 Go runtime info {"system_info": {"go": {"os":"linux","arch":"arm64","max_procs":6,"version":"go1.15.13"}}} 2021-06-17T01:04:55.580-0700 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:1030 Host info {"system_info": {"host": {"architecture":"aarch64","boot_time":"2021-06-15T11:27:07-07:00","containerized":false,"name":"picktrack-1b","ip":["127.0.0.1/8","::1/128","192.0.2.3/24","fe80::4ab0:2dff:fe3a:f3ea/64","10.1.10.47/24","2603:3024:1810:d00:167:97ba:bea5:dbe4/64","2603:3024:1810:d00::6a7f/128","2603:3024:1810:d00:accb:af47:d455:f16f/64","2603:3024:1810:d00:c7a5:8dda:279e:bc80/64","fe80::9456:54f7:a987:d92/64","172.17.0.1/16"],"kernel_version":"4.9.140+","mac":["3a:df:65:e3:d8:c6","48:b0:2d:3a:f3:ea","1a:4c:a9:26:f2:05","1a:4c:a9:26:f2:05","1a:4c:a9:26:f2:07","08:36:c9:7c:93:a3","02:42:1d:88:cd:54"],"os":{"type":"linux","family":"debian","platform":"ubuntu","name":"Ubuntu","version":"18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)","major":18,"minor":4,"patch":4,"codename":"bionic"},"timezone":"PDT","timezone_offset_sec":-25200,"id":"a3d9197b765643568af09eb2bd3e5ce7"}}} 2021-06-17T01:04:55.582-0700 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:1059 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"],"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"],"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"],"ambient":null}, "cwd": "/etc/filebeat", "exe": "/usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat", "name": "filebeat", "pid": 12945, "ppid": 12944, "seccomp": {"mode":"disabled"}, "start_time": "2021-06-17T01:04:53.120-0700"}}} 2021-06-17T01:04:55.582-0700 INFO instance/beat.go:309 Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 7.13.2 2021-06-17T01:04:55.582-0700 DEBUG [beat] instance/beat.go:335 Initializing output plugins 2021-06-17T01:04:55.583-0700 DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/consumer.go:148 start pipeline event consumer 2021-06-17T01:04:55.583-0700 INFO [publisher] pipeline/module.go:113 Beat name: picktrack-1b 2021-06-17T01:04:55.585-0700 WARN beater/filebeat.go:178 Filebeat is unable to load the Ingest Node pipelines for the configured modules because the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled. If you have already loaded the Ingest Node pipelines or are using Logstash pipelines, you can ignore this warning. 2021-06-17T01:04:55.585-0700 ERROR instance/beat.go:989 Exiting: Index management requested but the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled Exiting: Index management requested but the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled ``` ---
**Author:** ![Akanksha\_Pandey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/akanksha_pandey/32/89539_2.png) [@Akanksha\_Pandey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akanksha_Pandey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-index-management-requested-but-the-elasticsearch-output-is-not-configured-enabled/276274/2 "2021-06-17T13:46:52Z")
And this is my `filebeat.yml` file- ```auto # ============================== Filebeat inputs =============================== filebeat.inputs: # Each - is an input. Most options can be set at the input level, so # you can use different inputs for various configurations. # Below are the input specific configurations. - type: log # Change to true to enable this input configuration. enabled: false # Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths. paths: - /var/log*.log #- c:\programdata\elasticsearch\logs\* # Exclude lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It drops the lines that are # matching any regular expression from the list. #exclude_lines: ['^DBG'] # Include lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It exports the lines that are # matching any regular expression from the list. #include_lines: ['^ERR', '^WARN'] # Exclude files. A list of regular expressions to match. Filebeat drops the files that # are matching any regular expression from the list. By default, no files are dropped. #exclude_files: ['.gz$'] # Optional additional fields. These fields can be freely picked # to add additional information to the crawled log files for filtering #fields: # level: debug # review: 1 ### Multiline options # Multiline can be used for log messages spanning multiple lines. This is common # for Java Stack Traces or C-Line Continuation # The regexp Pattern that has to be matched. The example pattern matches all lines starting with [ #multiline.pattern: ^\[ # Defines if the pattern set under pattern should be negated or not. Default is false. #multiline.negate: false # Match can be set to "after" or "before". It is used to define if lines should be append to a pattern # that was (not) matched before or after or as long as a pattern is not matched based on negate. # Note: After is the equivalent to previous and before is the equivalent to to next in Logstash #multiline.match: after # filestream is an experimental input. It is going to replace log input in the future. - type: filestream # Change to true to enable this input configuration. enabled: false # Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths. paths: - /var/log/*.log #- c:\programdata\elasticsearch\logs\* # Exclude lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It drops the lines that are # matching any regular expression from the list. #exclude_lines: ['^DBG'] # Include lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It exports the lines that are # matching any regular expression from the list. #include_lines: ['^ERR', '^WARN'] # Exclude files. A list of regular expressions to match. Filebeat drops the files that # are matching any regular expression from the list. By default, no files are dropped. #prospector.scanner.exclude_files: ['.gz$'] # Optional additional fields. These fields can be freely picked # to add additional information to the crawled log files for filtering #fields: # level: debug # review: 1 # ============================== 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: true # 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 # 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 # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601 host: "myhost: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/). # 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: ["myhost:9200"] # Protocol - either `http` (default) or `https`. # protocol: "https" # Authentication credentials - either API key or username/password. #api_key: "id:api_key" #username: "elastic" #password: "changeme" # ------------------------------ Logstash Output ------------------------------- output.logstash: # The Logstash hosts hosts: ["myhost:5043"] # 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" # ================================= Processors ================================= processors: - add_host_metadata: when.not.contains.tags: forwarded - add_cloud_metadata: ~ - add_docker_metadata: ~ - add_kubernetes_metadata: ~ # ================================== Logging =================================== # Sets log level. The default log level is info. # Available log levels are: error, warning, info, debug logging.level: debug # At debug level, you can selectively enable logging only for some components. # To enable all selectors use ["*"]. Examples of other selectors are "beat", # "publisher", "service". logging.selectors: ["*"] # ============================= X-Pack Monitoring ============================== # Filebeat can export internal metrics to a central Elasticsearch monitoring # cluster. This requires xpack monitoring to be enabled in Elasticsearch. The # reporting is disabled by default. # Set to true to enable the monitoring reporter. monitoring.enabled: true # Sets the UUID of the Elasticsearch cluster under which monitoring data for this # Filebeat instance will appear in the Stack Monitoring UI. If output.elasticsearch # is enabled, the UUID is derived from the Elasticsearch cluster referenced by #output.elasticsearch. #monitoring.cluster_uuid: # Uncomment to send the metrics to Elasticsearch. Most settings from the # Elasticsearch output are accepted here as well. # Note that the settings should point to your Elasticsearch *monitoring* cluster. # Any setting that is not set is automatically inherited from the Elasticsearch # output configuration, so if you have the Elasticsearch output configured such # that it is pointing to your Elasticsearch monitoring cluster, you can simply # uncomment the following line. #monitoring.elasticsearch: # ============================== Instrumentation =============================== # Instrumentation support for the filebeat. #instrumentation: # Set to true to enable instrumentation of filebeat. #enabled: false # Environment in which filebeat is running on (eg: staging, production, etc.) #environment: "" # APM Server hosts to report instrumentation results to. #hosts: # - http://localhost:8200 # API Key for the APM Server(s). # If api_key is set then secret_token will be ignored. #api_key: # Secret token for the APM Server(s). #secret_token: # ================================= Migration ================================== # This allows to enable 6.7 migration aliases #migration.6_to_7.enabled: true ``` ---
**Author:** ![Akanksha\_Pandey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/akanksha_pandey/32/89539_2.png) [@Akanksha\_Pandey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akanksha_Pandey)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-index-management-requested-but-the-elasticsearch-output-is-not-configured-enabled/276274/3 "2021-06-17T14:01:16Z")
And when I run `filebeat -e` it triggers this error- ```auto 2021-06-17T06:57:25.474-0700 INFO instance/beat.go:410 filebeat stopped. 2021-06-17T06:57:25.474-0700 ERROR instance/beat.go:989 Exiting: data path already locked by another beat. Please make sure that multiple beats are not sharing the same data path (path.data). Exiting: data path already locked by another beat. Please make sure that multiple beats are not sharing the same data path (path.data). ``` ---
**Author:** ![legoguy1000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/legoguy1000/32/54301_2.png) [@legoguy1000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/legoguy1000)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 2:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-index-management-requested-but-the-elasticsearch-output-is-not-configured-enabled/276274/4 "2021-06-21T02:02:25Z")
You are sending to logstash not to elasticsearch directly. As such you cannot have the index settings configured. > [@Akanksha\_Pandey](#): > > ```auto > setup.template.settings: > index.number_of_shards: 1 > #index.codec: best_compression > #_source.enabled: false > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Akanksha\_Pandey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/akanksha_pandey/32/89539_2.png) [@Akanksha\_Pandey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akanksha_Pandey)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-index-management-requested-but-the-elasticsearch-output-is-not-configured-enabled/276274/5 "2021-06-21T09:16:44Z")
The problem is solved. Thanks anyways ---
**Author:** ![thiennk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thiennk/32/91812_2.png) [@thiennk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thiennk)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-index-management-requested-but-the-elasticsearch-output-is-not-configured-enabled/276274/6 "2021-07-19T07:57:08Z")
I would love to know how to solve your problem, I removed the index configuration by #setup.template.settings: #index.number\_of\_shards: 1 #index.codec: best\_compression #\_source.enabled: false but my problem is not solved, looking forward to your help. thanks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exiting-index-management-requested-but-the-elasticsearch-output-is-not-configured-enabled/276274/7 "2021-08-16T09:58:03Z")
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