Failed to start filebeat service on centos 7

[curious1 (rhea)]

I am running rails application on this server and i want to forward rails logs to logstash installed on another centos server . I have added logstasher gem for json formatted logs.
But when i do sudo service filebeat start, i get the following error:
filebeat.service - filebeat
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/filebeat.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Tue 2017-10-24 08:58:52 UTC; 1min 58s ago
Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html
Process: 7960 ExecStart=/usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml -path.home /usr/share/filebeat -path.config /etc/filebeat -path.data /var/lib/filebeat -path.logs /var/log/filebeat (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 7960 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Oct 24 08:58:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: filebeat.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 24 08:58:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit filebeat.service entered failed state.
Oct 24 08:58:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: filebeat.service failed.
Oct 24 08:58:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: filebeat.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Oct 24 08:58:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for filebeat.service
Oct 24 08:58:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start filebeat.
Oct 24 08:58:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit filebeat.service entered failed state.
Oct 24 08:58:52 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: filebeat.service failed.

filebeat:

prospectors:

  paths:
    - /vagrant/demo/log/logstash_development.log

  input_type: log

  fields:
  #  level: debug
  #  review: 1
 tags: ['json']


  fields_under_root: true
  document_type: log

output:

logstash:

hosts: ["192.168.33.10:5044"]
bulk_max_size: 1024
index: filebeat

tls:
  # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications
   certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/tls/certs/logstash-forwarder.crt"]
   path: "/tmp/filebeat"

logging:

to_files: true
path: /var/log/mybeat
rotateeverybytes: 10485760 # = 10MB

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Please edit your post and format the config sections and use the </> (aka code) button. This will make them much easier to read which will help diagnose the problem.

[steffens (Steffen Siering)]

Please properly format your post.

Try running filebeat in foreground. It's systemd complaining about filebeat not starting. Most likely some configuration errors. Invalid YAML? Properly format your post so we can have a look, or check syntax with http://yamllint.com.