# How to switch off default ES output of filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-switch-off-default-es-output-of-filebeat/80120>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 27, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-switch-off-default-es-output-of-filebeat/80120 "2017-03-27T10:35:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![emilio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f475e1/32.png) [@emilio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emilio)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-switch-off-default-es-output-of-filebeat/80120/1 "2017-03-27T10:35:22Z")

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Dear all,

I would like to get know how to switch off default ES output of filebeat.

I need enable just output to redis.

My output config:

```auto
output.elasticsearch:
 enabled: false

output.redis:
 enabled: true
 hosts: ["10.3.2.10:6379"]
 key: "filebeat"
 db: 0
 timeout: 5

```

But is not working.

I have receive such errors:

```auto
2017-03-27T14:27:21+04:00 INFO filebeat start running.
2017-03-27T14:27:21+04:00 INFO Registry file set to: /var/lib/filebeat/registry
2017-03-27T14:27:21+04:00 ERR Could not init crawler: No prospectors defined. You must have at least one prospector defined in the config file.
2017-03-27T14:27:21+04:00 INFO Total non-zero values: 
2017-03-27T14:27:21+04:00 INFO Uptime: 14.700535ms
2017-03-27T14:27:21+04:00 INFO filebeat stopped.
2017-03-27T14:27:21+04:00 CRIT Exiting: No prospectors defined. You must have at least one prospector defined in the config file.

```

Why???

I have configured a lot of prospectors actually.

```auto
filebeat.prospectors:

#======mnp-gui=catalina.out==========================
 
paths:
    
- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-mnp-ui/logs/catalina.out"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log
    
document_type: mnp-ui_logs

fields:

 host: container5

 application: mnp_gui

 log_file: catalina.out

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}" 

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","mnp_gui","catalina.out"] 

#======mnp-gui=catalina.out==========================

#======mnp-gui=catalina.*.log========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-mnp-ui/logs/catalina.*.log"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log

document_type: mnp-ui_logs

fields:

 host: container5

 application: mnp_gui

 log_file: catalina.*.log

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","mnp_gui","catalina.*.log"]

#======mnp-gui=catalina.*.log========================

#======mnp-gui=localhost.*.log========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-mnp-ui/logs/localhost.*.log"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log

document_type: mnp-ui_logs

fields:   

 host: container5

 application: mnp_gui

 log_file: localhost.*.log

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","mnp_gui","localhost.*.log"]

#======mnp-gui=localhost_access_log.*.txt========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-mnp-ui/logs/localhost_access_log.*.txt"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log

document_type: mnp-ui_logs

fields:

 host: container5

 application: mnp_gui

 log_file: localhost_access_log.*.txt

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","mnp_gui","localhost_access_log.*.txt"]

#======mnp-gui=localhost_access_log.*.txt========================
  
#======mnp-gui=manager.*.log========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-mnp-ui/logs/localhost_access_log.*.txt"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log

document_type: mnp-ui_logs

fields:

 host: container5

 application: mnp_gui

 log_file: localhost_access_log.*.txt

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","mnp_gui","manager.*.log"]

#======mnp-gui=manager.*.log========================

#======mnp-gui=MNPClient.log========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-mnp-ui/logs/MNPClient.log"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log

document_type: mnp-ui_logs

fields:

 host: container5

 application: mnp_gui

 log_file: MNPClient.log

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","mnp_gui","MNPClient.log"]

#======mnp-gui=MNPClient.log========================

#======roaming=catalina.out========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-roaming-info-8555/logs/catalina.out"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log

document_type: roaming_logs

fields:

 host: container5

 application: roaming

 log_file: catalina.out

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","roaming","catalina.out"]

#======roaming=catalina.out========================

#======roaming=catalina.*.log========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-roaming-info-8555/logs/catalina.*.log"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log

document_type: roaming_logs

fields:

 host: container5

 application: roaming

 log_file: catalina.*.log

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","roaming","catalina.*.log"]

#======roaming=catalina.*.log========================

#======roaming=host-manager.*.log========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-roaming-info-8555/logs/host-manager.*.log"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log
 
document_type: roaming_logs
 
fields:

 host: container5

 application: roaming

 log_file: host-manager.*.log

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","roaming","host-manager.*.log"]

#======roaming=host-manager.*.log========================

#======roaming=localhost.*.log========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-roaming-info-8555/logs/localhost.*.log"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log
 
document_type: roaming_logs
 
fields:

 host: container5

 application: roaming

 log_file: localhost.*.log

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","roaming","localhost.*.log"]

#======roaming=localhost.*.log========================

#======roaming=localhost_access_log.*.txt========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-roaming-info-8555/logs/localhost_access_log.*.txt"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log

document_type: roaming_logs
 
fields:

 host: container5

 application: roaming

 log_file: localhost_access_log.*.txt

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","roaming","localhost_access_log.*.txt"]

#======roaming=localhost_access_log.*.txt========================

#======roaming=manager.*.log========================

paths:

- "/home/tomcat/tomcat-7.0.47-roaming-info-8555/logs/manager.*.log"

- input_type: log

json.keys_under_root: true
json.add_error_key: true
json.message_key: log

document_type: roaming_logs
 
fields:

 host: container5

 application: roaming

 log_file: manager.*.log

 date: "%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

fields_under_root: true

tags: ["container5","roaming","manager.*.log"]

#======roaming=manager.*.log========================

```

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-switch-off-default-es-output-of-filebeat/80120/2 "2017-03-27T11:23:44Z")

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As I wrote in the other topic, your YAML file doesn't look properly formatted. It results in zero prospectors, which raises the error.

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**Author:** ![emilio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f475e1/32.png) [@emilio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emilio)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-switch-off-default-es-output-of-filebeat/80120/3 "2017-03-27T11:47:11Z")

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Ok, so this topic is closed.

Could you please, answer in other topic regarding prospectors?

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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:** [April 24, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-switch-off-default-es-output-of-filebeat/80120/4 "2017-04-24T11:47:25Z")

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