Filebeat service failing to start

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Refer to documentation below, it stated that:

You may encounter the following errors if your config file fails these checks:

Exiting: error loading config file: config file ("{beatname}.yml") must be owned by the beat user (uid=501) or root

To correct this problem you can use either chown root {beatname}.yml or chown 501 {beatname}.yml to change the owner of the configuration file.

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