Filebeat Error and Configuration Issues

[Priyaansh_Dwivedi (Mr. Dwivedi)]

Despite my efforts, I have been unable to resolve the following error messages and configuration challenges. Your expertise and guidance would be greatly appreciated!
When checking the status of Filebeat, I encountered the following error:

ExecStart=/usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat --environment systemd $BEAT_LOG_OPTS $BEAT_CONFIG_OPTS $BEAT_PATH_OPTS (code=exited, status=>
Main PID: 76406 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Upon running the command filebeat -v -e -d "*", I received the following error message:

"message":"Exiting: setup.template.name and setup.template.pattern have to be set if index name is modified","service.name":"filebeat","ecs.version":"1.6.0"}
Exiting: setup.template.name and setup.template.pattern have to be set if index name is modified

My Configuration YAML File:

filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - /var/log/jitsi/jicofo.log
  fields:
    log_type: jicofo
- type: log
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - /var/log/jitsi/jvb.log
  fields:
    log_type: jvb

filebeat.config.modules:
  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
  reload.enabled: false

setup.template.settings:
  index.number_of_shards: 1

setup.kibana:

output.elasticsearch:
  hosts: ["abc.def.ghij.kl:9200"]
  index: "filebeat-%{[fields.log_type]}-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}"
  setup.template.name: "filebeat"
  setup.template.pattern: "filebeat"

processors:
  - add_host_metadata:
      when.not.contains.tags: forwarded
  - add_cloud_metadata: ~
  - add_docker_metadata: ~
  - add_kubernetes_metadata: ~

[carly.richmond]

Hi @Priyaansh_Dwivedi,

It looks like it's not picking up the setup.template.name and setup.template.pattern properties in your YAML configuration. Should those properties not be specified as top level config (i.e. not under output.elasticsearch)?

[Priyaansh_Dwivedi (Mr. Dwivedi)]

Thanks for your reply. Highly appreciated.
So where should the setup.template.name and setup.template.pattern be placed can you give more light to them?

[carly.richmond]

So not indented under output as you have at the moment:

setup.template.name: "filebeat"
setup.template.pattern: "filebeat"
setup.template.settings:
  index.number_of_shards: 1