# HELP! Exiting: Error in initing input: No paths were defined for input accessing 'filebeat.prospectors.1'

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**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 28, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-exiting-error-in-initing-input-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing-filebeat-prospectors-1/271528 "2021-04-28T14:55:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-exiting-error-in-initing-input-no-paths-were-defined-for-input-accessing-filebeat-prospectors-1/271528/1 "2021-04-28T14:55:37Z")

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PS C:\Program Files\Filebeat\> .\filebeat.exe -e -v  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.071+0300 INFO instance/beat.go:592 Home path: [C:\Program Files\Filebeat] Config path: [C:  
Program Files\Filebeat] Data path: [C:\Program Files\Filebeat\data] Logs path: [C:\Program Files\Filebeat\logs]  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.120+0300 INFO instance/beat.go:599 Beat UUID: 10fe813b-66aa-4ba2-95fc-e65addf4070f  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.121+0300 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:825 Beat info {"system\_info": {"beat": {"path"  
: {"config": "C:\Program Files\Filebeat", "data": "C:\Program Files\Filebeat\data", "home": "C:\Program Files\Fil  
ebeat", "logs": "C:\Program Files\Filebeat\logs"}, "type": "filebeat", "uuid": "10fe813b-66aa-4ba2-95fc-e65addf4070f"  
}}}  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.122+0300 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:834 Build info {"system\_info": {"build": {"comm  
it": "6da316ebb3ba6ed57725b7fd7c21e598522855bf", "libbeat": "6.5.3", "time": "2018-12-06T18:55:35.000Z", "version": "6.5  
.3"}}}  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.123+0300 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:837 Go runtime info {"system\_info": {"go": {"os":"wi  
ndows","arch":"amd64","max\_procs":4,"version":"go1.10.3"}}}  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.132+0300 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:841 Host info {"system\_info": {"host": {"archi  
tecture":"x86\_64","boot\_time":"2021-04-13T11:01:42.4+03:00","name":"z14-1548-otcsbe","ip":["10.96.2.143/24","::1/128","1  
27.0.0.1/8","fe80::5efe:a60:28f/128"],"kernel\_version":"6.3.9600.19780 (winblue\_ltsb.200711-0600)","mac":["00:50:56:b3:3  
3:a1","00:00:00:00:00:00:00:e0"],"os":{"family":"windows","platform":"windows","name":"Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard",  
"version":"6.3","major":3,"minor":0,"patch":0,"build":"9600.0"},"timezone":"MSK","timezone\_offset\_sec":10800,"id":"89849  
87a-e10d-42eb-a2d3-f9c5ff86614e"}}}  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.137+0300 INFO [beat] instance/beat.go:870 Process info {"system\_info": {"process": {"cw  
d": "C:\Program Files\Filebeat", "exe": "C:\Program Files\Filebeat\filebeat.exe", "name": "filebeat.exe", "pid": 42  
84, "ppid": 12144, "start\_time": "2021-04-28T17:40:16.986+0300"}}}  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.138+0300 INFO instance/beat.go:278 Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 6.5.3  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.140+0300 INFO [publisher] pipeline/module.go:110 Beat name: z14-1548-otcsbe  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.141+0300 WARN [cfgwarn] beater/filebeat.go:81 DEPRECATED: prospectors are deprecated,  
Use `inputs` instead. Will be removed in version: 7.0.0  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.143+0300 INFO instance/beat.go:400 filebeat start running.  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.143+0300 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:117 Starting metrics logging every 30s  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.145+0300 INFO registrar/registrar.go:134 Loading registrar data from C:/Program Files/Fil  
ebeat/data/registry  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.148+0300 INFO registrar/registrar.go:141 States Loaded from registrar: 1  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.149+0300 WARN beater/filebeat.go:374 Filebeat is unable to load the Ingest Node pipelines for  
the configured modules because the Elasticsearch output is not configured/enabled. If you have already loaded the Inges  
t Node pipelines or are using Logstash pipelines, you can ignore this warning.  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.150+0300 INFO crawler/crawler.go:72 Loading Inputs: 2  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.151+0300 WARN [cfgwarn] input/config.go:42 DEPRECATED: input\_type input config is d  
eprecated. Use type instead. Will be removed in version: 6.0.0  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.152+0300 INFO log/input.go:138 Configured paths: [C:\logs\rnvService-20210416.log]  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.153+0300 INFO input/input.go:114 Starting input of type: log; ID: 684429169258826107  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.154+0300 INFO crawler/crawler.go:139 Stopping Crawler  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.154+0300 INFO crawler/crawler.go:149 Stopping 1 inputs  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.155+0300 INFO input/input.go:149 input ticker stopped  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.156+0300 INFO input/input.go:167 Stopping Input: 684429169258826107  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.157+0300 INFO crawler/crawler.go:165 Crawler stopped  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.157+0300 INFO registrar/registrar.go:356 Stopping Registrar  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.160+0300 INFO registrar/registrar.go:282 Ending Registrar  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.313+0300 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:152 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics  
": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":109,"time":{"ms":109}},"total":{"ticks":171,"time":{"ms":171},"value":171},"user":{  
"ticks":62,"time":{"ms":62}}},"handles":{"open":175},"info":{"ephemeral\_id":"693d604c-f1f2-475a-8404-0f59b2c675ec","upti  
me":{"ms":149}},"memstats":{"gc\_next":4194304,"memory\_alloc":2686296,"memory\_total":4158872,"rss":18071552}},"filebeat":  
{"events":{"added":1,"done":1},"harvester":{"open\_files":0,"running":0}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"o  
utput":{"type":"logstash"},"pipeline":{"clients":0,"events":{"active":0,"filtered":1,"total":1}}},"registrar":{"states":  
{"current":1,"update":1},"writes":{"success":2,"total":2}},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":4}}}}}  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.316+0300 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Uptime: 298.0133ms  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.317+0300 INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:130 Stopping metrics logging.  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.318+0300 INFO instance/beat.go:410 filebeat stopped.  
2021-04-28T17:40:17.320+0300 ERROR instance/beat.go:800 Exiting: Error in initing input: No paths were defined f  
or input accessing 'filebeat.prospectors.1'  
Exiting: Error in initing input: No paths were defined for input accessing 'filebeat.prospectors.1'  
PS C:\Program Files\Filebeat\>

filebeat:  
prospectors:

- fields:  
type: sedFuib-RNV  
fields\_under\_root: true  
ignore\_older: 25h  
input\_type: log  
paths:
  - C:\logs\rnvService-20210416.log

- null  
registry\_file: C:/Program Files/Filebeat/data/registry  
logging:  
files:  
name: filebeat  
path: C:\Program Files\Filebeat\logs\filebeat  
rotateeverybytes: 10485760  
level: info  
to\_files: true  
output:  
logstash:  
hosts:
  - [elklogd.ru:5044](http://elklogd.ru:5044)  
worker: 1  
path:  
config: C:\Program Files\Filebeat  
data: C:\Program Files\Filebeat\data  
home: C:\Program Files\Filebeat  
logs: C:\Program Files\Filebeat\logs

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