# Filebeat adding incorrect path to multiple prospectors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [June 4, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-adding-incorrect-path-to-multiple-prospectors/134449 "2018-06-04T15:18:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![magdieldominguez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@magdieldominguez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magdieldominguez)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-adding-incorrect-path-to-multiple-prospectors/134449/1 "2018-06-04T15:18:22Z")
Hi I just started using filebeat I am using Filebeat - 6.2.4. I am running this on a redhat 5 linux box and I am trying to send around 15 log files into elasticsearch. Not sure where I am going wrong in specifying the paths for these in the filebeat.yml file. In the logs it shows that filebeat is adding its own path to the rest of the prospectors I created other than the first. Help would be greatly appreciated. Here is my filebeat.yml file: ``` #=========================== Filebeat prospectors ============================= filebeat.prospectors: # Each - is a prospector. Most options can be set at the prospector level, so # you can use different prospectors for various configurations. # Below are the prospector specific configurations. - type: log # Change to true to enable this prospector configuration. enabled: true # Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths. paths: - /opt/bs/apps/readerstreet/current/logs/Readerstreet.*.report - type: log paths: -/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures1/bin/*.log - type: log paths: -/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures2/bin/*.log - type: log paths: -/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures3/bin/*.log - type: log paths: -/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures4/bin/*.log - type: log paths: -/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures5/bin/*.log - type: log paths: -/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures6/bin/*.log - type: log paths: -/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures7/bin/*.log - type: log paths: -/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures8/bin/*.log - type: log paths: -/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures9/bin/*.log ``` and In my log file that shows the results of filebeat here is what it shows for the multiple prospectors: ``` 2018-06-01T09:17:56.539-0500 INFO instance/beat.go:468 Home path: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64] Config path: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64] Data path: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/data] Logs path: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/logs] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.543-0500 INFO instance/beat.go:475 Beat UUID: aabea580-3d3b-4a32-8750-abac7795fd7f 2018-06-01T09:17:56.543-0500 INFO instance/beat.go:213 Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 6.2.4 2018-06-01T09:17:56.543-0500 INFO elasticsearch/client.go:145 Elasticsearch url: http://xldogsa18:9400 2018-06-01T09:17:56.544-0500 INFO pipeline/module.go:76 Beat name: xldogs10 2018-06-01T09:17:56.619-0500 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:97 Starting metrics logging every 30s 2018-06-01T09:17:56.620-0500 INFO instance/beat.go:301 filebeat start running. 2018-06-01T09:17:56.622-0500 INFO registrar/registrar.go:110 Loading registrar data from /opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/data/registry 2018-06-01T09:17:56.623-0500 INFO registrar/registrar.go:121 States Loaded from registrar: 5 2018-06-01T09:17:56.623-0500 INFO crawler/crawler.go:48 Loading Prospectors: 10 2018-06-01T09:17:56.644-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/apps/readerstreet/current/logs/Readerstreet.*.report] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.651-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures1/bin/*.log] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.667-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures2/bin/*.log] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.668-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures3/bin/*.log] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.668-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures4/bin/*.log] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.679-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures5/bin/*.log] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.680-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures6/bin/*.log] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.682-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures7/bin/*.log] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.682-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures8/bin/*.log] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.683-0500 INFO log/prospector.go:111 Configured paths: [/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures9/bin/*.log] 2018-06-01T09:17:56.714-0500 INFO log/harvester.go:216 Harvester started for file: /opt/bs/apps/readerstreet/current/logs/Readerstreet.DIG12.report 2018-06-01T09:17:56.720-0500 INFO crawler/crawler.go:82 Loading and starting Prospectors completed. Enabled prospectors: 10 2018-06-01T09:17:56.720-0500 INFO log/harvester.go:216 Harvester started for file: /opt/bs/apps/readerstreet/current/logs/Readerstreet.xl12.report 2018-06-01T09:17:56.720-0500 INFO cfgfile/reload.go:127 Config reloader started 2018-06-01T09:17:56.721-0500 INFO cfgfile/reload.go:219 Loading of config files completed. 2018-06-01T09:17:56.721-0500 INFO log/harvester.go:216 Harvester started for file: /opt/bs/apps/readerstreet/current/logs/Readerstreet.xl113.report 2018-06-01T09:17:56.723-0500 INFO log/harvester.go:216 Harvester started for file: /opt/bs/apps/readerstreet/current/logs/Readerstreet.xl12.report 2018-06-01T09:17:57.744-0500 INFO elasticsearch/client.go:690 Connected to Elasticsearch version 2.3.5 2018-06-01T09:17:58.110-0500 INFO template/load.go:73 Template already exists and will not be overwritten. 2018-06-01T09:18:26.638-0500 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:124 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s ``` I notice that for the first prospector it does have the right configured path but for the rest it adds the path that I have filebeat in infront of them. (ie "/opt/bs/filebeat/filebeat-6.2.4-linux-x86\_64/-/opt/bs/apps/BrainProcedures1/bin/\*.log") How can I change that? Thank you ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-adding-incorrect-path-to-multiple-prospectors/134449/2 "2018-06-05T07:47:10Z")
Can you add a space in all your configs after the `-` and between the path? ---
**Author:** ![magdieldominguez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/0ea827/32.png) [@magdieldominguez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magdieldominguez)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-adding-incorrect-path-to-multiple-prospectors/134449/3 "2018-06-05T14:41:33Z")
That was the issue. Thank you Ruflin! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-adding-incorrect-path-to-multiple-prospectors/134449/4 "2018-07-03T14:41:35Z")
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