# Filebeat Service Timeout on Linux Server **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [May 10, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-timeout-on-linux-server/180600 "2019-05-10T17:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![danielmoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@danielmoon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmoon)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-timeout-on-linux-server/180600/1 "2019-05-10T17:42:10Z")
Hi, I'm running into as issue with starting the filebeat service. Whenever I start the service `sudo systemctl start filebeat` Filebeat begins working, but the command never finishes executing. After about a 20 minute period the something (the os probably) kills the service because it never finished starting. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Everything is /var/log/messages, and /var/log/filebeat point to the timeout being the issue, but I can't figure out why it's timing out. ---
**Author:** ![danielmoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@danielmoon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmoon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-timeout-on-linux-server/180600/2 "2019-05-13T16:15:10Z")
Found out my issue, the filebeat.service unit needed to be changed from 'forking' to 'simple' /etc/systemd/system/filebeat.service Thanks to everyone for their help. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-timeout-on-linux-server/180600/3 "2019-06-10T16:15:11Z")
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