# Filebeat.yml ignoring path.home

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-yml-ignoring-path-home/143795>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 10, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-yml-ignoring-path-home/143795 "2018-08-10T04:14:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_Motley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@Tom\_Motley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tom_Motley)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-yml-ignoring-path-home/143795/1 "2018-08-10T04:14:28Z")

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I am running Filebeat 6.2.4 on my local Mac OS, installed via Homebrew.

When I run FB, it ignores my path.home declaration in my filebeat.yml file. However, I can verify that yml is being parsed and read, because if I include an error in it, startup fails with appropriate error message. To get FB to recognize my home path, I have to pass it in as CLI variable.

/usr/local/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml

_path.home: /usr/local/etc/filebeat_

_filebeat -e_  
2018-08-09T21:12:49.253-0700 INFO instance/beat.go:468 Home path: [/usr/local/Cellar/filebeat/6.2.4] Config path: [/usr/local/etc/filebeat] Data path: [/usr/local/var/lib/filebeat] Logs path: [/usr/local/var/log/filebeat]  
2018-08-09T21:12:49.254-0700 INFO instance/beat.go:475 Beat UUID: 2b058feb-772a-4bd1-abd7-4137e2d4bbe3  
2018-08-09T21:12:49.254-0700 INFO instance/beat.go:213 Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 6.2.4  
2018-08-09T21:12:49.255-0700 INFO elasticsearch/client.go:145 Elasticsearch url: [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)  
2018-08-09T21:12:49.256-0700 INFO pipeline/module.go:76 Beat name: hero-c02rg00ug8wq.lan  
2018-08-09T21:12:49.256-0700 ERROR fileset/modules.go:95 Not loading modules. Module directory not found: /usr/local/Cellar/filebeat/6.2.4/module

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-yml-ignoring-path-home/143795/2 "2018-08-10T12:36:09Z")

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I just tried this out on my mac and was able to reproduce it. If you have a GitHub account, would you mind reporting this bug in the beats repo here: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new). That way you will be notified of any progress on the bug as well.

If you don't have a GitHub account, let me know and I'll file the issue for you.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Motley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@Tom\_Motley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tom_Motley)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-yml-ignoring-path-home/143795/3 "2018-08-10T13:27:19Z")

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Yes, I will do that today , thanks Shaunak.

- tom

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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:** [September 7, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-yml-ignoring-path-home/143795/4 "2018-09-07T13:27:21Z")

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