# Filebeat on RHEL7: Docker input not showing up in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-rhel7-docker-input-not-showing-up-in-kibana/303869>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** docker, filebeat\
**Created:** [May 3, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-rhel7-docker-input-not-showing-up-in-kibana/303869 "2022-05-03T18:58:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![paolovalladolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@paolovalladolid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paolovalladolid)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-rhel7-docker-input-not-showing-up-in-kibana/303869/1 "2022-05-03T18:58:39Z")

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I first set up and installed Filebeat, using RPM, on a Red Hat Linux VM with a plain filestream input, with path set to `/var/log/redist_6379.log`. I then ran `sudo service filebeat start` and verified I can see log output in Kibana Discover.

I then set up and installed Filebeat with RPM on a RHEL7 VM running 2 Docker containers. I configured the input as follows:

```auto
filebeat.inputs:
- type: container
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - '/var/lib/docker/containers/*/*.log'

```

I then ran `sudo service filebeat start` to start it.

**Problem:** No docker log output in Kibana discover

I ran this to look at the log` sudo journalctl -u filebeat.service --since "5 minutes ago" | less` but did not see anything to indicate what might be wrong.

Is filebeat.autodiscover required?

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**Author:** ![Tetiana\_Kravchenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tetiana_kravchenko/32/102683_2.png) [@Tetiana\_Kravchenko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tetiana_Kravchenko)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-rhel7-docker-input-not-showing-up-in-kibana/303869/2 "2022-05-04T16:04:38Z")

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Hi @paolovalladolid,

Did you check if log files in this path exists:

```auto
/var/lib/docker/containers/*/*.log

```

?  
Did you try to add [debug log level](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-logging.html) `logging.level: debug`, maybe it could provide more details?

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**Author:** ![paolovalladolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@paolovalladolid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paolovalladolid)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-rhel7-docker-input-not-showing-up-in-kibana/303869/3 "2022-05-04T17:34:54Z")

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Hi! I just found out that the Docker container I want to monitor was set up to log to journald instead of the file system, so I will try the journald input in Filebeat.

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**Author:** ![paolovalladolid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@paolovalladolid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paolovalladolid)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-rhel7-docker-input-not-showing-up-in-kibana/303869/4 "2022-05-05T22:56:53Z")

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Confirming the journald input solved my issue

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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 3, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-on-rhel7-docker-input-not-showing-up-in-kibana/303869/5 "2022-06-03T00:57:25Z")

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