# Metricbeat inside a podman container

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-inside-a-podman-container/364717>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [August 9, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-inside-a-podman-container/364717 "2024-08-09T19:24:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-inside-a-podman-container/364717/1 "2024-08-09T19:24:38Z")

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when inserting the following line in podman-compose.yml I'm getting this error:  
Exiting: could not initialize the keystore: open /usr/share/metricbeat/data/metricbeat.keystore: permission denied

And the container doesn't start,