# Invalid Config

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/invalid-config/202112>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/invalid-config/202112 "2019-10-03T08:20:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Pierrelaurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@Pierrelaurent](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pierrelaurent)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/invalid-config/202112/1 "2019-10-03T08:20:54Z")

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Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

![afbeelding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/4/34998cabb6cf3583cbed3b8e6ec228baa955e512.png)

I am getting the following error

![afbeelding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/c/9c444acabcfe92a57d65ef7a1f7bd96dc73c67e3.png)

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Madden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael_madden/32/46640_2.png) [@Michael\_Madden](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Madden)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/invalid-config/202112/2 "2019-10-03T14:32:17Z")

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Hi, thanks for the post. Which version of metricbeat are you running? I'm guessing that line 19 is this line?

`path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml`

This looks very similar to reference config file:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-reference-yml.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-reference-yml.html)

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**Author:** ![Pierrelaurent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@Pierrelaurent](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pierrelaurent)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/invalid-config/202112/3 "2019-10-04T07:11:18Z")

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Hi

Here another screenshot

![afbeelding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/b/bb9362333c8282702baa681a892e4408f06f43ea.png)

The version is 7.3.2

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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:** [November 1, 2019, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/invalid-config/202112/4 "2019-11-01T07:11:18Z")

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