# Failed to get audit status before adding rules

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-get-audit-status-before-adding-rules/239060>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [June 29, 2020, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-get-audit-status-before-adding-rules/239060 "2020-06-29T05:42:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![martin.ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@martin.ellis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/martin.ellis)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-get-audit-status-before-adding-rules/239060/1 "2020-06-29T05:42:12Z")

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When I start auditbeat I get this error message

```auto
2020-06-29T14:49:06.560+1000 ERROR [auditd] auditd/audit_linux.go:148 Failure adding audit rules {"error": "failed to get audit status before adding rules: operation not permitted", "errorVerbose": "operation not permitted\nfailed to get audit status before adding rules\ngithub.com/elastic/beats/v7/auditbeat/module/auditd.(*MetricSet).addRules\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/auditbeat/module/auditd/audit_linux.go:230\ngithub.com/elastic/beats/v7/auditbeat/module/auditd.(*MetricSet).Run\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/auditbeat/module/auditd/audit_linux.go:146\ngithub.com/elastic/beats/v7/metricbeat/mb/module.(*metricSetWrapper).run\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/metricbeat/mb/module/wrapper.go:203\ngithub.com/elastic/beats/v7/metricbeat/mb/module.(*Wrapper).Start.func1\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/metricbeat/mb/module/wrapper.go:147\nruntime.goexit\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1357"}

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I am unsure what it means or if my rules have loaded properly. I can see much in the Kibana dashboards.

I am running auditbeat 7.8.0 on Ububu 18.04

What other information should I supply?

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**Author:** ![martin.ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@martin.ellis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/martin.ellis)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-get-audit-status-before-adding-rules/239060/2 "2020-06-29T07:37:22Z")

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Oh the host this is running on is an LXC container

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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:** [July 27, 2020, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-get-audit-status-before-adding-rules/239060/3 "2020-07-27T09:37:22Z")

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