# Filebeat not receiving logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-receiving-logs/240829>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 12, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-receiving-logs/240829 "2020-07-12T10:19:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sai\_Avinash\_Duddupud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sai_avinash_duddupud/32/48265_2.png) [@Sai\_Avinash\_Duddupud](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sai_Avinash_Duddupud)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-receiving-logs/240829/1 "2020-07-12T10:19:40Z")

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Hi all,

I have setup filebeat on server, but filebeat is not receiving logs at all. my log file continuously generates logs and the directory where log file is present has **drwxr-xr-x+** permission

I want to understand if its because of **isFile(/var/lib/filebeat/registry) -\> false**  
as shown in the image below?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/6/d6fc3763ea9293a41402f85fbe7efc0513607bf9.png)

**filebeat export config** gave me below result  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/b/6ba8d39194eb2a064c4f00509cac5fa1f9e1e939.png)

I am trying this from past 2 days. did a lot of search but no clue till now of how to get this up and running.

Also, my **data.json** file is empty. can someone please suggest a way to fix this and also tell steps to restart filebeat from scratch? currently I am killing pid of filebeat and running **filebeat -e -d "\*"** command to restart the filebeat and see its logs.

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**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-receiving-logs/240829/2 "2020-07-14T07:36:05Z")

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Hi!

How did you installed Filebeat. Could you share the steps/resources you follow so as to try to replicate your environment?

C.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2020, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-receiving-logs/240829/3 "2020-08-11T09:36:11Z")

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