# Filebeat not sending suricata logs to elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-sending-suricata-logs-to-elasticsearch/342399>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 6, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-sending-suricata-logs-to-elasticsearch/342399 "2023-09-06T07:12:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Dhruv\_Kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dhruv_kumar/32/125365_2.png) [@Dhruv\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dhruv_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-sending-suricata-logs-to-elasticsearch/342399/1 "2023-09-06T07:12:23Z")

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Hello . I have a server in which i am running suricata . In the same server I have installed filebeat which i am using to send my suricata logs to Elasticsearch .I have setup es and kibana inside a vm .After starting everything I am able to see filebeat suricata page in elasticsearch but however every field is empty there are no logs .I have looked up everywhere but couldnt find anything

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**Author:** ![ashishtiwari1993](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ashishtiwari1993/32/135241_2.png) [@ashishtiwari1993](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashishtiwari1993)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-sending-suricata-logs-to-elasticsearch/342399/2 "2023-09-06T07:37:23Z")

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Hi Dhurv, Welcome to the Elastic community. Can you try to run below command and check whether you getting any error or warning

```auto
filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml

```

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**Author:** ![Dhruv\_Kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dhruv_kumar/32/125365_2.png) [@Dhruv\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dhruv_Kumar)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-sending-suricata-logs-to-elasticsearch/342399/3 "2023-09-06T07:53:32Z")

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Hii Ashish , I dont have a file named myfilebeatconfig.yml

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**Author:** ![ashishtiwari1993](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ashishtiwari1993/32/135241_2.png) [@ashishtiwari1993](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashishtiwari1993)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2023, 8:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-sending-suricata-logs-to-elasticsearch/342399/4 "2023-09-06T08:44:51Z")

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You can try  
`filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml`

Purpose of this command to run filebeat in verbose mode and check whether its throwing any error/warning.

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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:** [October 4, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-sending-suricata-logs-to-elasticsearch/342399/5 "2023-10-04T10:45:24Z")

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