# Filebeat Error...what am I doing wrong? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [March 6, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-error-what-am-i-doing-wrong/171021 "2019-03-06T03:21:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evan\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evan\_Skinner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Evan_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-error-what-am-i-doing-wrong/171021/1 "2019-03-06T03:21:39Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-error-what-am-i-doing-wrong/171021/2 "2019-03-06T15:18:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-error-what-am-i-doing-wrong/171021/3 "2019-04-03T15:24:53Z")
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