# Graylog-sidecar and auditbeats - ERRO\[0040\] \[auditbeat\] Unable to validate configuration, timeout reached

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graylog-sidecar-and-auditbeats-erro-0040-auditbeat-unable-to-validate-configuration-timeout-reached/197075>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [August 28, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graylog-sidecar-and-auditbeats-erro-0040-auditbeat-unable-to-validate-configuration-timeout-reached/197075 "2019-08-28T09:34:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![pandzioo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@pandzioo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pandzioo)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graylog-sidecar-and-auditbeats-erro-0040-auditbeat-unable-to-validate-configuration-timeout-reached/197075/1 "2019-08-28T09:34:11Z")

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First of all I would like to say Hello 🙂 I would like to say that I'm new in Elastic topics - I need help.

I installed elastic search and graylog for collecting logs from linux environment. I have many linux servers where I already installed graylog-sidecar and auditbeats. My servers are available in graylog sidecars tab. I have simple configuration for auditbeats assigned to the linux machines (assigned from graylog).

Unfortunatelly I don't see any logs in graylog . On all linux machines I see error ERRO[0040] [auditbeat] Unable to validate configuration, timeout reached.

[root@server auditbeat]# graylog-sidecar  
INFO[0000] Using node-id: f177ab57-6e9d-41ae-94ba-3050dde1234  
INFO[0000] Starting signal distributor  
INFO[0010] Adding process runner for: auditbeat  
INFO[0010] [auditbeat] Configuration change detected, rewriting configuration file.  
ERRO[0040] [auditbeat] Unable to validate configuration, timeout reached.

How I can check why my configuration is unable to validate?

Thanks in advanced

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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 25, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graylog-sidecar-and-auditbeats-erro-0040-auditbeat-unable-to-validate-configuration-timeout-reached/197075/2 "2019-09-25T11:34:21Z")

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