# Metricbeat issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-issue/212293>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [December 18, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-issue/212293 "2019-12-18T09:36:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![tanthiamhuat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@tanthiamhuat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanthiamhuat)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-issue/212293/1 "2019-12-18T09:36:46Z")

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I follow the instructions for installations:  
curl -L -O [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-7.5.0-amd64.deb](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-7.5.0-amd64.deb)  
sudo dpkg -i metricbeat-7.5.0-amd64.deb  
Above 2 is OK

Modify /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml to set the connection information for Elastic Cloud:  
cloud.id: "FirstElasticDeployment:abcdefblahblahblah=="  
cloud.auth: "elastic:defghijkblahblah"  
line 85 is cloud.auth: "elastic:defghijkblahblah"  
which I find there is no issue, why does it complains below:  
sudo metricbeat modules enable elasticsearch  
Error initializing beat: error loading config file: yaml: line 85: could not find expected ':'

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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:** [January 15, 2020, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-issue/212293/2 "2020-01-15T09:36:48Z")

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