Filebeat Error...what am I doing wrong?

Greetings:

Below is the output when I try to start filebeats. What is going wrong and how can I fix this? I will provide more info as needed. Thank you!

2019-03-05T19:14:42.582-0800 INFO instance/beat.go:616 Home path: [/usr/share/filebeat] Config path: [/etc/filebeat] Data path: [/var/lib/filebeat] Logs path: [/var/log/filebeat]
2019-03-05T19:14:42.584-0800 INFO instance/beat.go:623 Beat UUID: 7effa461-9f3c-4e74-8071-3b2bb4ac59db
2019-03-05T19:14:42.588-0800 INFO [seccomp] seccomp/seccomp.go:116 Syscall filter successfully installed
2019-03-05T19:14:42.588-0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:936 Beat info {"system_info": {"beat": {"path": {"config": "/etc/filebeat", "data": "/var/lib/filebeat", "home": "/usr/share/filebeat", "logs": "/var/log/filebeat"}, "type": "filebeat", "uuid": "7effa461-9f3c-4e74-8071-3b2bb4ac59db"}}}
2019-03-05T19:14:42.589-0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:945 Build info {"system_info": {"build": {"commit": "928f5e3f35fe28c1bd73513ff1cc89406eb212a6", "libbeat": "6.6.1", "time": "2019-02-13T16:12:26.000Z", "version": "6.6.1"}}}
2019-03-05T19:14:42.589-0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:948 Go runtime info {"system_info": {"go": {"os":"linux","arch":"amd64","max_procs":1,"version":"go1.10.8"}}}
2019-03-05T19:14:42.593-0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:952 Host info {"system_info": {"host": {"architecture":"x86_64","boot_time":"2019-03-05T18:45:05-08:00","containerized":false,"name":"ubuntu","ip":["127.0.0.1/8","::1/128","192.168.11.134/24","fe80::3f80:4e56:4d75:a2a8/64"],"kernel_version":"4.15.0-46-generic","mac":["00:0c:29:35:4d:13"],"os":{"family":"debian","platform":"ubuntu","name":"Ubuntu","version":"18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver)","major":18,"minor":4,"patch":1,"codename":"bionic"},"timezone":"PST","timezone_offset_sec":-28800,"id":"547e95c006f8477b9b13d02280b72bf3"}}}
2019-03-05T19:14:42.596-0800 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:981 Process info {"system_info": {"process": {"capabilities": {"inheritable":null,"permitted":["chown","dac_override","dac_read_search","fowner","fsetid","kill","setgid","setuid","setpcap","linux_immutable","net_bind_service","net_broadcast","net_admin","net_raw","ipc_lock","ipc_owner","sys_module","sys_rawio","sys_chroot","sys_ptrace","sys_pacct","sys_admin","sys_boot","sys_nice","sys_resource","sys_time","sys_tty_config","mknod","lease","audit_write","audit_control","setfcap","mac_override","mac_admin","syslog","wake_alarm","block_suspend","audit_read"],"effective":["chown","dac_override","dac_read_search","fowner","fsetid","kill","setgid","setuid","setpcap","linux_immutable","net_bind_service","net_broadcast","net_admin","net_raw","ipc_lock","ipc_owner","sys_module","sys_rawio","sys_chroot","sys_ptrace","sys_pacct","sys_admin","sys_boot","sys_nice","sys_resource","sys_time","sys_tty_config","mknod","lease","audit_write","audit_control","setfcap","mac_override","mac_admin","syslog","wake_alarm","block_suspend","audit_read"],"bounding":["chown","dac_override","dac_read_search","fowner","fsetid","kill","setgid","setuid","setpcap","linux_immutable","net_bind_service","net_broadcast","net_admin","net_raw","ipc_lock","ipc_owner","sys_module","sys_rawio","sys_chroot","sys_ptrace","sys_pacct","sys_admin","sys_boot","sys_nice","sys_resource","sys_time","sys_tty_config","mknod","lease","audit_write","audit_control","setfcap","mac_override","mac_admin","syslog","wake_alarm","block_suspend","audit_read"],"ambient":null}, "cwd": "/etc/filebeat", "exe": "/usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat", "name": "filebeat", "pid": 6548, "ppid": 6547, "seccomp": {"mode":"filter","no_new_privs":true}, "start_time": "2019-03-05T19:14:41.860-0800"}}}
2019-03-05T19:14:42.598-0800 INFO instance/beat.go:281 Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 6.6.1
2019-03-05T19:14:45.600-0800 INFO add_cloud_metadata/add_cloud_metadata.go:319 add_cloud_metadata: hosting provider type not detected.
2019-03-05T19:14:45.603-0800 INFO [publisher] pipeline/module.go:110 Beat name: ubuntu
2019-03-05T19:14:45.605-0800 INFO instance/beat.go:369 filebeat stopped.
2019-03-05T19:14:45.606-0800 ERROR instance/beat.go:911 Exiting: No monitoring reporter configured
Exiting: No monitoring reporter configured

Hello @Evan_Skinner Can you share your configuration, I think you are enabling filebeat monitoring but you didn't configure where to send the metrics.

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