# FileBeat Startup error - No paths were defined for input accessing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-startup-error-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing/274014>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 26, 2021, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-startup-error-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing/274014 "2021-05-26T06:43:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Parveen\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/parveen_sharma/32/81337_2.png) [@Parveen\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Parveen_Sharma)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-startup-error-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing/274014/1 "2021-05-26T06:43:17Z")

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I am using filebeat 7.8.1

Following is the filebeat configuration file

````auto
        - type: kubernetes          
          in_cluster: true
          tags:
            - "kubernetes"
          templates:
            - condition:
                 or:
                    - equals:
                         kubernetes.container.name: "abc"
              config :
                - type: log
                  paths:
					   - "/var/lib/kubelet/pods/${data.kubernetes.pod.uid}/volumes/**/*.log.0"
                       - "/var/lib/kubelet/pods/${data.kubernetes.pod.uid}/volumes/**/*_log"
                  fields:
                       logplane: abclog
            - condition:
                 or:
                    - equals:
                         kubernetes.container.name: "def"                    
              config :
                - type: log
                  paths:
                      - "/var/lib/kubelet/pods/${data.kubernetes.pod.uid}/volumes/**/*.log.0"
                      - "/var/lib/kubelet/pods/${data.kubernetes.pod.uid}/volumes/**/*_log"
                  fields:
                       logplane: deflog
            - condition:
                and:
                - not.equals:
                    kubernetes.container.name: abc
                - not.equals:
                    kubernetes.container.name: def                
              config :
                - type: log
                  paths:
                     - "/var/lib/docker/containers/${data.kubernetes.container.id}/*.log"
                  fields:
                    logplane: otherslog
          appenders:
            - type: config
              config:
                fields_under_root: true
                close_timeout: 0
                tail_files: true
                processors:
                - rename:
                    fields:
                    - from: "log"
                      to: "logs"
                    ignore_missing: true
                    fail_on_error: false
                - decode_json_fields:
                    fields: ["logmsg"]
                    target: "json"
                    max_depth: 1```

After deployment of filebeat, i am gettting following error message:

```2021-05-26T04:03:14.105Z ERROR [autodiscover] autodiscover/autodiscover.go:209 Auto discover config check failed for config '{
"close_timeout": 0,
"fields": {
"logplane": "otherslog"
},
"fields_under_root": true,
"processors": [
{
"rename": {
"fail_on_error": false,
"fields": [
{
"from": "log",
"to": "logs"
}
],
"ignore_missing": true
}
},
{
"decode_json_fields": {
"fields": [
"logmsg"
],
"max_depth": 1,
"target": "json"
}
}
],
"tail_files": true,
"type": "log"
}', won't start runner: No paths were defined for input accessing 'data.config.0'```

I already defined the path but still, it says no Paths were defined. Can anyone share feedback and confirm what is mis-configured?
````

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**Author:** ![mtojek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mtojek/32/63863_2.png) [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-startup-error-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing/274014/2 "2021-05-26T06:53:55Z")

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Did you try to reduce the YML file to single config entries and try to bisect which one is wrong? Are all paths present on the host?

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**Author:** ![Parveen\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/parveen_sharma/32/81337_2.png) [@Parveen\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Parveen_Sharma)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-startup-error-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing/274014/3 "2021-05-27T07:23:57Z")

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Yes, I tried that as well but sometimes an error is coming without a log plane and with the "otherslog" log plane. When debug logs were enabled, all successful harvest had a "path" and for error cases, file path was missing. I couldn't understand without matching file path how could appender is called.

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**Author:** ![mtojek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mtojek/32/63863_2.png) [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 7:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-startup-error-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing/274014/4 "2021-05-27T07:39:08Z")

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Could you please these debug logs? It's hard to figure out your problem without more details.

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**Author:** ![Parveen\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/parveen_sharma/32/81337_2.png) [@Parveen\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Parveen_Sharma)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-startup-error-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing/274014/5 "2021-05-27T07:52:17Z")

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Yes, it's really cumbersome but I extracted the logs into another file and then searched for the error msg and compare the difference. Do you need some inputs for analysis?

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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 24, 2021, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-startup-error-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing/274014/6 "2021-06-24T09:52:49Z")

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