# Filebeat config file error **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [July 28, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-file-error/56573 "2016-07-28T00:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yomesky20000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ee7513/32.png) [@yomesky20000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yomesky20000)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-file-error/56573/1 "2016-07-28T00:52:34Z")
I am trying to start Filebeats on a clients server to ship log to my ELK server and im getting the below error service filebeat start Starting filebeat: Loading config file error: YAML config parsing failed on /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml: yaml: line 281: found unexpected ':'. Exiting. ### my config file below ### Logstash as output 278 279 ### Logstash as output 280 #logstash: 281 # The Logstash hosts 282 hosts: [[elasticsearch.local.com:5044](http://elasticsearch.local.com:5044)] 283 bulk\_max\_size:1024 284 285 # Number of workers per Logstash host. 286 #worker: 1 287 288 # Set gzip compression level. 289 #compression\_level: 3 290 291 # Optional load balance the events between the Logstash hosts 292 #loadbalance: true 293 294 # Optional index name. The default index name depends on the each beat. 295 # For Packetbeat, the default is set to packetbeat, for Topbeat 296 # top topbeat and for Filebeat to filebeat. 297 #index: filebeat 298 299 # Optional TLS. By default is off. 300 tls: The system keeps complaining about Line 281 and im confused whats not right on that line, Pls anyone with a suggestion to help will be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Joshua\_Rich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joshua_rich/32/44953_2.png) [@Joshua\_Rich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joshua_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-file-error/56573/2 "2016-07-28T06:11:09Z")
It looks like you need to uncomment line 280 for your config to be valid. ---
**Author:** ![yomesky20000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ee7513/32.png) [@yomesky20000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yomesky20000)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-file-error/56573/3 "2016-07-28T12:09:34Z")
I will try this today and hopefully it works, thanks Josh Sincere regards, Yomi SunmonuRHCSA, ITILv3System Engineer ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-file-error/56573/4 "2017-07-06T04:46:08Z")