# Filebeat configuration file
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration-file/139488
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [July 11, 2018, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration-file/139488 "2018-07-11T07:00:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@CCH0124](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CCH0124)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration-file/139488/1 "2018-07-11T07:00:05Z")
Kibana has used nginx as a reverse proxy.
kibana version 6.2
filebeat version 6.3
```auto
filebeat.config:
inputs:
enabled: true
modules:
enabled: true
filebeat.inputs:
enabled: true
filebeat.modules:
- module: system
syslog:
enabled: true
var.path: ["/var/log/syslog*"]
var.convert_timezone: true
input:
exclude_files: ['.gz$']
auth:
enabled: true
var.path: ["/var/log/auth*"]
var.convert_timezone: true
input:
exclude_files: ['.gz$']
output.elasticsearch:
enabled: false
output.logstash:
enabled: true
hosts: ["192.168.XX.XX:10514"]
ssl.enabled: false
setup.kibana:
enabled: true
host: "192.168.XX.XX:8080"
username: "XXX"
password: "XXX"
ssl.enabled: false
#setup.dashboards.enabled: true
```
When the setup.dashboards.enabled: true annotation is removed, the following error occurs when running docker
```auto
2018-07-11T06:51:24.926Z ERROR instance/beat.go:691 Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version: HTTP GET request to /api/status fails: parsing kibana response: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of ./html>nter>nginx/1.13.12center>d>
Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version: HT ./html>nter>nginx/1.13.12center>d> kibana response: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value. Response:
```
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration-file/139488/2 "2018-07-11T07:18:49Z")
Your Filebeat configuration is correct. However, your reverse proxy is configured incorrectly. Filebeat should be getting a JSON response from Kibana which contains its version info. But in your case the response is some HTML returned by NGINX. Are you sure you configured it correctly?
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### Author:  [@CCH0124](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CCH0124)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration-file/139488/3 "2018-07-11T09:12:47Z")
But I execute curl and display information normally.
```auto
curl http://192.168.XX.XX:8080/api/status
```
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration-file/139488/4 "2018-07-11T10:19:35Z")
Do you execute this command inside the Docker container where Filebeat fails to fetch the data?
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### Author:  [@CCH0124](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CCH0124)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration-file/139488/5 "2018-07-13T00:42:37Z")
Can be executed normally.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-configuration-file/139488/6 "2018-08-10T02:42:41Z")
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