Json_parse_exception Illegal character CTRL-CHAR

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I managed to replicate this crash. I'm not sure what happens, but the crash happens with an input configuration that is not JSON.

  - type: log
    enabled: true
    paths:
      - /fake

The full debug output from filebeats is here: https://gist.github.com/alexjurkiewicz/da219f1bb1d191db455e983d3a7a961a

I tried twice, and had the same issues both times.

I added a single line to this file with echo hi >>/fake and then started Filebeat, when it immediately failed with this error.

I am really confused now :thinking: