Metricbeat service error : Stopped Metricbeat is a lightweight shipper for metrics

Hello Everyone,

any idea about the below error?
when I try to start metricbeat service, I am getting below error.

systemctl status metricbeat
● metricbeat.service - Metricbeat is a lightweight shipper for metrics.
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/metricbeat.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Thu 2019-08-01 09:33:46 UTC; 2h 33min ago
Docs: https://www.elastic.co/products/beats/metricbeat
Process: 14976 ExecStart=/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat $BEAT_LOG_OPTS $BEAT_CONFIG_OPTS $BEAT_PATH_OPTS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 14976 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 01 09:33:46 stg-logstash01.local systemd[1]: metricbeat.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 01 09:33:46 stg-logstash01.local systemd[1]: Unit metricbeat.service entered failed state.
Aug 01 09:33:46 stg-logstash01.local systemd[1]: metricbeat.service failed.
Aug 01 09:33:46 stg-logstash01.local systemd[1]: metricbeat.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Aug 01 09:33:46 stg-logstash01.local systemd[1]: Stopped Metricbeat is a lightweight shipper for metrics..
Aug 01 09:33:46 stg-logstash01.local systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for metricbeat.service
Aug 01 09:33:46 stg-logstash01.local systemd[1]: Failed to start Metricbeat is a lightweight shipper for metrics..
Aug 01 09:33:46 stg-logstash01.local systemd[1]: Unit metricbeat.service entered failed state.
Aug 01 09:33:46 stg-logstash01.local systemd[1]: metricbeat.service failed.

[root~]# tail -f /var/log/metricbeat/metricbeat
2019-08-01T07:44:02.456Z INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:178 Set output.elasticsearch.index to 'metricbeat-7.3.0' as ILM is enabled.
2019-08-01T07:44:02.457Z INFO elasticsearch/client.go:170 Elasticsearch url: http://192.168.0.100:9200
2019-08-01T07:44:02.457Z INFO [publisher] pipeline/module.go:97 Beat name: localhost
2019-08-01T07:44:02.458Z INFO instance/beat.go:421 metricbeat start running.
2019-08-01T07:44:02.460Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:118 Starting metrics logging every 30s
2019-08-01T07:44:02.462Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":20,"time":{"ms":20}},"total":{"ticks":50,"time":{"ms":56},"value":50},"user":{"ticks":30,"time":{"ms":36}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":4096,"soft":1024},"open":13},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"9b45f6c3-884b-4a02-9f2c-991f289eec4c","uptime":{"ms":111}},"memstats":{"gc_next":11340288,"memory_alloc":6642416,"memory_total":12856872,"rss":31956992},"runtime":{"goroutines":46}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"output":{"type":"elasticsearch"},"pipeline":{"clients":0,"events":{"active":0}}},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":1},"load":{"1":0,"15":0.05,"5":0.02,"norm":{"1":0,"15":0.05,"5":0.02}}}}}}
2019-08-01T07:44:02.462Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:154 Uptime: 111.70384ms
2019-08-01T07:44:02.462Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:131 Stopping metrics logging.
2019-08-01T07:44:02.462Z INFO instance/beat.go:431 metricbeat stopped.
2019-08-01T07:44:02.476Z ERROR instance/beat.go:877 Exiting: empty field accessing '0.access_key_id' (source:'/etc/metricbeat/modules.d/aws.yml')

It looks like there's a formatting error in your aws.yml

yeah I forgot to configure my aws.yml after adding secretkey/accesskey/region den its working fine :slight_smile: thanks for ur reply :slight_smile:

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