i am trying to configure and install filebeat using salt on centos7 machine, code is running fine but when i am checking systemctl status filebeat it is showing below error.
[jbansal@stage1-servicenode1 files]$ sudo systemctl status filebeat
● filebeat.service - filebeat
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/filebeat.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Wed 2018-02-14 23:41:10 UTC; 15min ago
Docs: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html
Process: 96783 ExecStart=/usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml -path.home /usr/share/filebeat -path.config /etc/filebeat -path.data /var/lib/filebeat -path.logs /var/log/filebeat (code=exited, status=2)
Main PID: 96783 (code=exited, status=2)
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net filebeat[96783]: /go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:785 +0x30e
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net filebeat[96783]: github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(0xc420350f00, 0xc42022bf70, 0x146a649)
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net filebeat[96783]: /go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:738 +0x2b
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net filebeat[96783]: main.main()
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net filebeat[96783]: /go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/filebeat/main.go:18 +0x2f
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net systemd[1]: filebeat.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for filebeat.service
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net systemd[1]: Failed to start filebeat.
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net systemd[1]: Unit filebeat.service entered failed state.
Feb 14 23:41:10 stage1-servicenode1.aca1.tidemark.net systemd[1]: filebeat.service failed.