# Filebeat not starting Error creating input: string value is not set accessing 'url'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-starting-error-creating-input-string-value-is-not-set-accessing-url/235107>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-starting-error-creating-input-string-value-is-not-set-accessing-url/235107 "2020-06-01T04:08:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangolinux](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mangolinux/32/65837_2.png) [@Mangolinux](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mangolinux)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-starting-error-creating-input-string-value-is-not-set-accessing-url/235107/1 "2020-06-01T04:08:52Z")

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I am trying to start filebeat and I get these errors  
WARN [cfgwarn] syslog/input.go:111 EXPERIMENTAL: Syslog input type is used  
ERROR fileset/factory.go:106 Error creating input: string value is not set accessing 'url'  
ERROR instance/beat.go:932 Exiting: string value is not set accessing 'url'

Test config = ok  
filebeat version 7.7.0 (amd64), libbeat 7.7.0 [5e69e25b920e3d93bec76a09a31da3ab35a55607 built 2020-05-12 00:53:16 +0000 UTC]

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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:** [June 29, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-starting-error-creating-input-string-value-is-not-set-accessing-url/235107/2 "2020-06-29T04:09:10Z")

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