# Metricbeat 6.0.0-beta1 config reload issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [August 24, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-0-0-beta1-config-reload-issue/98234 "2017-08-24T12:34:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![randude](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/randude/32/34911_2.png) [@randude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/randude)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-0-0-beta1-config-reload-issue/98234/1 "2017-08-24T12:34:11Z")
Hi, I enabled this feature and tried several things. I changed one of the modules from false to true and then tried to add a new module altogether. In both cases, nothing was written to log to confirm that the reload happened and no new data was written to my output file. Here's my conf file: ```auto metricbeat.config.modules: path: /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml reload.period: 5s reload.enabled: true metricbeat.max_start_delay: 10s metricbeat.modules: - module: system metricsets: ["process"] processors: - include_fields: fields: ["system.process.name", "system.process.cpu.total.pct", "system.process.cmdline", "system.process.memory.size", "system.process.fd.open"] - drop_event.when.not.regexp: system.process.name: 'sshd' enabled: true period: 30s processes: ['.*'] - module: system metricsets: ["filesystem"] enabled: true period: 30s processes: ['.*'] processors: - include_fields: fields: ["system.filesystem.free", "system.filesystem.total", "system.filesystem.used.pct", "system.filesystem.device_name"] - module: system metricsets: ["memory"] enabled: true period: 30s processes: ['.*'] processors: - include_fields: fields: ["system.memory.actual.free", "system.memory.total"] - module: system metricsets: ["network"] enabled: true period: 30s processes: ['.*'] processors: - include_fields: fields: ["system.network.in.bytes", "system.network.out.bytes"] - module: system metricsets: ["cpu"] enabled: true period: 30s processes: ['.*'] processors: - include_fields: fields: ["system.cpu.cores", "system.cpu.idle.pct"] cpu.metrics: ["percentages"] # The other available options are normalized_percentages and ticks. core.metrics: ["percentages"] # The other available option is ticks. - module: mongodb metricsets: ["dbstats", "status"] enabled: false period: 30s hosts: ["localhost:27017"] processors: - drop_fields: fields: ['beat'] logging.to_syslog: false logging.metrics.enabled: true logging.metrics.period: 1800 logging.level: debug logging.to_files: true logging.json: false logging.files: path: /var/log/metricbeat name: metricbeat.log rotateeverybytes: 10485760 keepfiles: 7 output.file: path: "/var//log/metricbeat/" filename: metricbeat.txt #rotate_every_kb: 10000 number_of_files: 2 ``` ---
**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-0-0-beta1-config-reload-issue/98234/2 "2017-08-24T15:50:48Z")
Hi @randude, From your config I see: ```auto metricbeat.config.modules: path: /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml reload.period: 5s reload.enabled: true ``` But metricbeat expects `metricbeat.config.modules.path` to be a pattern of files to load, check [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-configuration-reloading.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-configuration-reloading.html) for more details. I think you want to create a new folder and put your modules on separate files on it Best regards ---
**Author:** ![randude](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/randude/32/34911_2.png) [@randude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/randude)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-0-0-beta1-config-reload-issue/98234/3 "2017-08-24T16:09:09Z")
Hi, thanks for the reply @exekias I enabled the log level to be debug and i saw that it did find my pattern. The path that i provided is a legal regex after all. However, it said that it didnt detect any change. So just to clarify, does it load only new files or can it actually detect changes in existing modules i.e disabling/adding new processors? ---
**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-0-0-beta1-config-reload-issue/98234/4 "2017-08-24T16:32:34Z")
It can detect changes, after loading a valid configuration 🙂 The issue in this case is that when it tries to load `metricbeat.yml`it doesn't find a module, but the whole settings for metricbeat, which is not a valid config for a module. ---
**Author:** ![randude](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/randude/32/34911_2.png) [@randude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/randude)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-0-0-beta1-config-reload-issue/98234/5 "2017-08-24T18:29:26Z")
I see! That explains it haha. Thanks 🙂 You should add that to the official doc. "Each file found by the Glob must contain **_only_** a list of one or more module definitions. " ---
**Author:** ![randude](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/randude/32/34911_2.png) [@randude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/randude)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-0-0-beta1-config-reload-issue/98234/6 "2017-08-27T08:03:41Z")
So I got it to work. I set the path to "path: /etc/metricbeat/modules.yml" and had to remove the "metricbeat.modules:" headline. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-6-0-0-beta1-config-reload-issue/98234/7 "2017-09-24T08:03:43Z")
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