# How to create template for burrowbeat template file?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-template-for-burrowbeat-template-file/65749>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [November 11, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-template-for-burrowbeat-template-file/65749 "2016-11-11T04:41:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-template-for-burrowbeat-template-file/65749/1 "2016-11-11T04:41:15Z")

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Hi,

I have downloaded burrowbeat from [https://github.com/Goomzee/burrowbeat](https://github.com/Goomzee/burrowbeat) and I built it. But it requires a template json file [https://github.com/Goomzee/burrowbeat/blob/master/burrowbeat.template.json](https://github.com/Goomzee/burrowbeat/blob/master/burrowbeat.template.json) , which is empty. How should I configure that? Can somebody help me? When I run the beat, its showing error;

```
Exiting: error initializing publisher: Error loading template /data/setup/GA5/beats/burrowbeat/burrowbeat.template.json: EOF

```

Thanks.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-template-for-burrowbeat-template-file/65749/2 "2017-07-05T21:50:17Z")

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