# Filebeat 6 on Redhat (RHEL/CentOS 5) not supported! **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [March 13, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049 "2019-03-13T02:58:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@knight](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knight)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/1 "2019-03-13T02:58:08Z")
OS ENV： cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) uname -r 2.6.18-164.el5 Filebeat version： 6.6.2 when i run cmd：./filebeat -e -c ./filebeat.yml , i got those info： runtime: epollwait on fd 4 failed with 38 fatal error: runtime: netpoll failed runtime stack: runtime.throw(0x179661c, 0x17) /usr/local/go/src/runtime/panic.go:616 +0x81 runtime.netpoll(0x158b63a61a3a5000, 0x0) /usr/local/go/src/runtime/netpoll\_epoll.go:75 +0x216 runtime.sysmon() /usr/local/go/src/runtime/proc.go:4265 +0x424 runtime.mstart1(0x0) /usr/local/go/src/runtime/proc.go:1227 +0xe7 runtime.mstart() /usr/local/go/src/runtime/proc.go:1193 +0x76 goroutine 1 [runnable, locked to thread]: regexp/syntax.(\*Regexp).Simplify(0xc42032aa10, 0xc42032a930) /usr/local/go/src/regexp/syntax/simplify.go:99 +0xb19 regexp/syntax.(\*Regexp).Simplify(0xc42032aa80, 0x2) /usr/local/go/src/regexp/syntax/simplify.go:23 +0xc0 regexp/syntax.(\*Regexp).Simplify(0xc42032a8c0, 0xc42000df40) /usr/local/go/src/regexp/syntax/simplify.go:23 +0xc0 regexp.compile(0xc4202e5480, 0x13, 0xd4, 0x13, 0xc4202e5480, 0x13) /usr/local/go/src/regexp/regexp.go:177 +0xb9 regexp.Compile(0xc4202e5480, 0x13, 0x1, 0x2, 0xc4202e5480) /usr/local/go/src/regexp/regexp.go:133 +0x41 regexp.MustCompile(0xc4202e5480, 0x13, 0x1) /usr/local/go/src/regexp/regexp.go:238 +0x4d [github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/docker/distribution/reference.capture](http://github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/docker/distribution/reference.capture)(0xc42000e2c8, 0x1, 0x1, 0xc4202f5d60) /go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/docker/distribution/reference/regexp.go:137 +0xb9 goroutine 5 [syscall]: os/signal.signal\_recv(0xc420078fc8) /usr/local/go/src/runtime/sigqueue.go:139 +0xa6 os/signal.loop() /usr/local/go/src/os/signal/signal\_unix.go:22 +0x22 created by os/signal.init.0 /usr/local/go/src/os/signal/signal\_unix.go:28 +0x41 Please help me，my os server couldn't upgrade! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Randy-312](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/randy-312/32/19451_2.png) [@Randy-312](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Randy-312)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/2 "2019-03-13T03:08:46Z")
RHEL5 ... interesting since that's not a supported version for Filebeat Did it work for you before the upgrade? ---
**Author:** ![knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@knight](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knight)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/3 "2019-03-13T03:16:50Z")
> [@Randy-312](#): > > Did it work for you before the upgrade? 1.Are there some other version could support RHEL5? 2.yeah,in a short time ,my team couldn't upgrade the version of server.the jdk's version is 1.4 on the server.so the logstash is not be deployed. ---
**Author:** ![Randy-312](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/randy-312/32/19451_2.png) [@Randy-312](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Randy-312)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/4 "2019-03-13T05:09:52Z")
You may also want to take this a different way. Rather than solving a problem with getting logs to come off of a rhel5 sever, perhaps you should tell them to get off rhel5. I have to imagine the support cost are fairly High, especially where this platform is at from supportability perspective from Red Hat. ---
**Author:** ![robincher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robincher/32/41282_2.png) [@robincher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robincher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 3:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/5 "2019-03-14T03:02:37Z")
I am using RHEL 7,and its working fine for 6.6.1. Doubt a minor update will break the upgrade process. ---
**Author:** ![knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@knight](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knight)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/6 "2019-03-14T06:20:40Z")
thanks for your reply. i have to use logstash with jdk1.8 on the RHEL5,just ELK. ---
**Author:** ![knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@knight](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knight)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/7 "2019-03-14T06:22:33Z")
yeah. my os'version is rhel5,there are production server online.i have to use ELK ---
**Author:** ![robincher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/robincher/32/41282_2.png) [@robincher](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robincher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/8 "2019-03-14T11:30:18Z")
i am running on java-1.8.0-openjdk ,and since there are no major technical differences with Oracle JDK we can rule that out. Possible to try running on a sandbox with RHEL 7 installed? RHEL 5 is like coming to end of its life ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/9 "2019-03-14T15:29:50Z")
RHEL5 uses a pretty old kernel, which I think is not supported by the go runtime. Which kernel version are you using? 2.6.18-398? See: [https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/MinimumRequirements](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/MinimumRequirements) It says 2.6.23+ is required. The crash occurs on the epollwait syscall. ---
**Author:** ![knight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@knight](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/knight)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/10 "2019-03-15T02:02:47Z")
> [@steffens](#): > > version are you using? 2.6.18-398? yes. Our servers'version is 2.6.18-164.el5. I have seen "MinimumRequirements" that about golang. The problem should be linux kernel's reason. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Randy-312](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/randy-312/32/19451_2.png) [@Randy-312](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Randy-312)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/11 "2019-03-20T20:31:12Z")
Can we change the title of this to FileBeat and RHEL5 ? I think most users who have read the manual undersatnd it's not supported, so drawing attention to this post is unneccesary, and is not something people need to spend time reading. ---
**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/12 "2019-03-25T13:53:48Z")
Updated title. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-on-redhat-rhel-centos-5-not-supported/172049/13 "2019-04-22T13:53:49Z")
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