# Metricbeat failing to import templates on Windows
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-failing-to-import-templates-on-windows/146529
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [August 29, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-failing-to-import-templates-on-windows/146529 "2018-08-29T12:13:26Z")
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### Author:  [@mrsalmon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrsalmon)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-failing-to-import-templates-on-windows/146529/1 "2018-08-29T12:13:26Z")
I'm new to the ELK stack and have killed a couple of hours trawling the forums trying to resolve an issue I am having.
I have followed this guide: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/get-started-elastic-stack.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/get-started-elastic-stack.html)
Elastic search is up and running at [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)
Kibana is up and running at [http://localhost:5601](http://localhost:5601)
However, I cannot get Metricbeats to work. I have downloaded it and run through the article above, but when I run the command
```
`.\metricbeat.exe setup -e`
```
I get the following error:
```auto
http://127.0.0.1:9200/_template/metricbeat-6.4.0: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers). Response body: . Template is: map[index_patterns:[metricbeat-6.4.0-*] mappings:{"doc":{"_met
a":{"version":"6.4.0"},"date_detection":false,"dynamic_templates":[{"traefik.health.response.status_code":{"mapping":{"type":"long"},"match_mapping_type":"long","path_match":"traefik.health.response.status_code.*"}},{
"system.process.env":{"mapping":{"type":"keyword"},"match_mapping_type":"string","path_match":"system.process.env.*"}},{"system.process.cgroup.cpuacct.percpu":{"mapping":{"type":"long"},"match_mapping_type":"long","pa
```
If I run the command
`.\metricbeat.exe setup --dashboards`
I get this error:
```auto
Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)
Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to import the dashboards in Kibana: Error importing directory C:\Program Files\Metricbeat\kibana: Failed to import index-pattern: Failed to load directory C:\Program Files\Metricbeat\kibana/6/index-pattern:
```
I have tried so many combinations, and I am finally stumped. Some notes:
- Elastic search AND Kibana are running from an administrator console
- Metricbeat commands are being run from an administrator powershell console
- I am using the latest version of Elastic, Kibana and Metricbeat
- I have not added modules - I have used the default file metricbeats.yml with some minor changes - could this be the problem? The article doesn't say you need any modules explicitly added and I did try and add the windows module, but it didn't seem to help. In the modules.d folder, the files system.yml and windows.yml do exist
- Server is Windows Server 2016
- The file "C:\Program Files\Metricbeat\kibana\6\index-pattern\metricbeat.json" does exist
Metric beats config file as follows:
```auto
#========================== Modules configuration ============================
metricbeat.config.modules:
# Glob pattern for configuration loading
path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
# Set to true to enable config reloading
reload.enabled: false
# Period on which files under path should be checked for changes
#reload.period: 10s
#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ==========================
setup.template.settings:
index.number_of_shards: 1
index.codec: best_compression
#_source.enabled: false
#============================== Dashboards =====================================
# These settings control loading the sample dashboards to the Kibana index. Loading
# the dashboards is disabled by default and can be enabled either by setting the
# options here, or by using the `-setup` CLI flag or the `setup` command.
setup.dashboards.enabled: true
setup.dashboards.directory: ${path.home}/kibana
# The URL from where to download the dashboards archive. By default this URL
# has a value which is computed based on the Beat name and version. For released
# versions, this URL points to the dashboard archive on the artifacts.elastic.co
# website.
#setup.dashboards.url:
#============================== Kibana =====================================
# Starting with Beats version 6.0.0, the dashboards are loaded via the Kibana API.
# This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration.
setup.kibana:
# Kibana Host
# Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 5601)
# In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: http://localhost:5601/path
# IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601
host: "http://localhost:5601"
#================================ Outputs =====================================
# Configure what output to use when sending the data collected by the beat.
#-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------
output.elasticsearch:
# Array of hosts to connect to.
hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
```
Any help would be much appreciated!
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### Author:  [@mrsalmon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrsalmon)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-failing-to-import-templates-on-windows/146529/2 "2018-08-29T15:12:18Z")
I'm not quite sure what I did, but I stopped all services, rebooted the box, and everything started working. Go figure.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-failing-to-import-templates-on-windows/146529/3 "2018-09-26T15:12:25Z")
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