# Filebeat 6.4.2 not sending JSON file

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-4-2-not-sending-json-file/153859
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [October 24, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-4-2-not-sending-json-file/153859 "2018-10-24T18:05:45Z")
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### Author: ![Rolf\_Nufable](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rolf_nufable/32/48128_2.png) [@Rolf\_Nufable](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rolf_Nufable)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-4-2-not-sending-json-file/153859/1 "2018-10-24T18:05:45Z")

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Greetings to all,

Hi I'm fairly new to ELK and BEATS and I have little success in configurations regarding sending logs to logstash.

My problem for now is that filebeat 6.4.2 cannot start whenever I add the Json decoding options in the filebeat.yml file, therefor there is no log from the filebeat service hence I cannot troubleshoot.

I'm running filebeat 6.4.2 on a windows server.

Thanks in advance for the answers.

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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: [November 21, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-4-2-not-sending-json-file/153859/2 "2018-11-21T20:06:35Z")

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