# Functionbeat unable to start on lambda due to beats.keystore permissions **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** functionbeat\ **Created:** [November 6, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/functionbeat-unable-to-start-on-lambda-due-to-beats-keystore-permissions/206704 "2019-11-06T02:33:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![josh.bowers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/josh.bowers/32/57224_2.png) [@josh.bowers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/josh.bowers)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/functionbeat-unable-to-start-on-lambda-due-to-beats-keystore-permissions/206704/1 "2019-11-06T02:33:44Z")
Installing functionbeat on AWS Lambda I'm getting this error: `Exiting: could not initialize the keystore: open beats.keystore: permission denied` beats.keystore has the correct permissions (in fact anything else will fail to build anyway) ``` zipinfo package-aws.zip Archive: package-aws.zip Zip file size: 19199610 bytes, number of entries: 4 -rw-r--r-- 3.0 unx 33979 tx defN 19-Nov-06 02:19 functionbeat.yml -rwxr-xr-x 2.0 unx 60721160 b- defN 80-000-00 00:00 functionbeat-aws -rw------- 2.0 unx 610 b- defN 80-000-00 00:00 beats.keystore -rw-r--r-- 3.0 unx 663 tx defN 19-Sep-04 16:39 ilm_policy.json 4 files, 60756412 bytes uncompressed, 19199058 bytes compressed: 68.4% ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/functionbeat-unable-to-start-on-lambda-due-to-beats-keystore-permissions/206704/2 "2019-11-26T16:33:48Z")
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