# Filebeat agent installed on the client

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-agent-installed-on-the-client/154862>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-agent-installed-on-the-client/154862 "2018-10-31T14:31:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shahid\_Chaudhary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shahid_chaudhary/32/37134_2.png) [@Shahid\_Chaudhary](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shahid_Chaudhary)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-agent-installed-on-the-client/154862/1 "2018-10-31T14:31:35Z")

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Filebeat agent is installed on my client machine but machine is now showing on the ELK dashboard.  
What can be the issue. i already check the service status of filebeat is running

ubuntu@ip-10-0-1-243:~$ sudo service filebeat status  
● filebeat.service - Filebeat sends log files to Logstash or directly to Elasticsearch.  
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/filebeat.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)  
Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-10-31 11:23:13 UTC; 3h 7min ago  
Docs: [https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/filebeat](https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/filebeat)  
Main PID: 9299 (filebeat)  
Tasks: 9  
Memory: 9.2M  
CPU: 3.692s  
CGroup: /system.slice/filebeat.service  
└─9299 /usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml -path.home /usr/share/filebeat -path.config /etc/filebeat -path.data /var/lib/filebeat

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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-agent-installed-on-the-client/154862/2 "2018-10-31T16:33:16Z")

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Hi @Shahid_Chaudhary and welcome,

What modules have you enabled for this machine? Could you share its configuration? Could you also check if you see any error in filebeat logs?

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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 28, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-agent-installed-on-the-client/154862/3 "2018-11-28T16:33:18Z")

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