# Filebeat config prospectors not working in 6.0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [November 16, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-prospectors-not-working-in-6-0/108007 "2017-11-16T19:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Warren\_Turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Warren\_Turner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Warren_Turner)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-prospectors-not-working-in-6-0/108007/1 "2017-11-16T19:46:33Z")
Hey everybody, So I upgraded filebeat to version 6.0.0 and I saw this message in the logs: `WARN DEPRECATED: config_dir is deprecated. Use filebeat.config.prospectors instead. Will be removed in version: 7.0.0` So I went in the docs and found this: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.x/filebeat-configuration-reloading.html#load-prospector-config](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.x/filebeat-configuration-reloading.html#load-prospector-config) Which says I need to add something like this to my config instead: ``` filebeat.config.prospectors: enabled: true path: configs/*.yml ``` However, when I did this and restarted filebeat it did not load any of my yml files in that directory and gives me no errors? What am I doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-prospectors-not-working-in-6-0/108007/2 "2017-11-16T22:32:40Z")
Can you past a sample of the YML files in `config/`? The syntax is a bit different in the sense that when using the new option, the fragment YAML should contain an array of prospectors, while in the old one, the `filebeat.prospectors` "header" was needed. ---
**Author:** ![Warren\_Turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Warren\_Turner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Warren_Turner)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-prospectors-not-working-in-6-0/108007/3 "2017-11-16T23:59:39Z")
Sure thing: ``` filebeat.prospectors: - type: log paths: - /opt/jboss/log/px-web-jsp.json json.keys_under_root: true fields_under_root: true fields: type: px-web-server scan_frequency: 10s ignore_older: 24h close_removed: true clean_removed: true close_inactive: 5m clean_inactive: 30h ``` I tried commenting out the "filebeat.prospectors:" part but it didn't seem to do anything ---
**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-prospectors-not-working-in-6-0/108007/4 "2017-11-17T10:41:40Z")
The syntax should be good (if you take out the `filebeat.prospectors:` part). Can you run with `-d "*"` and paste the output? ---
**Author:** ![Warren\_Turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Warren\_Turner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Warren_Turner)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-prospectors-not-working-in-6-0/108007/5 "2017-11-17T17:17:47Z")
Hm, so I just redid all the steps again and I _think_ it is working? I see this in the log: ``` 2017-11-17T12:14:51-05:00 INFO Loading and starting Prospectors completed. Enabled prospectors: 0 2017-11-17T12:14:51-05:00 INFO Config reloader started 2017-11-17T12:14:51-05:00 INFO Starting 2 runners ... 2017-11-17T12:14:51-05:00 INFO Starting prospector of type: log; id: 10730498759109995509 2017-11-17T12:14:51-05:00 INFO Starting prospector of type: log; id: 15532996734736054351 2017-11-17T12:14:51-05:00 INFO Loading of config files completed. 2017-11-17T12:14:51-05:00 INFO Harvester started for file: /opt/jboss/px-web-jsp/log/localhost_access_log.log 2017-11-17T12:14:51-05:00 INFO Harvester started for file: /opt/jboss/px-web-jsp/log/px-web-jsp.json ``` So... it looks like there are 0 prospectors but it is harvesting the logs? Not sure how that is possible. As far as what fixed it I'm not sure, the only thing I did difference was remove the "filebeat.prospectors" line from the yml file instead of commenting it out ---
**Author:** ![Jonher937](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jonher937/32/9034_2.png) [@Jonher937](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jonher937)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-prospectors-not-working-in-6-0/108007/6 "2017-11-22T10:12:34Z")
I have the exact same problem in v6.0.0 ``` .\filebeat.exe --version filebeat version 6.0.0 (amd64), libbeat 6.0.0 ``` This works: ``` filebeat.config_dir: 'C:\Program files\filebeat\conf.d' ``` And this does not: ``` filebeat.config.prospectors: enabled: true path: conf.d/*.yml ``` Example prospector in conf.d (test.yaml): ``` filebeat: prospectors: - paths: - C:\ProgramData\example\logs\*.log fields: type: debuginclude fields_under_root: true encoding: windows-1252 multiline: pattern: ([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2},[0-9]{3}) negate: true match: after ``` @tudor Do you need anything else to continue debugging? ---
**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:** [November 23, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-prospectors-not-working-in-6-0/108007/7 "2017-11-23T09:47:36Z")
You have to remove the `filebeat.prospector` namespace. The files in `conf.d` are supposed to contain lists of prospector configurations only. [An Example](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-configuration-reloading.html#load-prospector-config) is given in the docs. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-config-prospectors-not-working-in-6-0/108007/8 "2017-12-21T09:47:44Z")
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