# Metricbeat service is not starting after adding metricbeat keystore

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-is-not-starting-after-adding-metricbeat-keystore/284223
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [September 14, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-is-not-starting-after-adding-metricbeat-keystore/284223 "2021-09-14T21:22:16Z")
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### Author: ![prat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prat/32/79978_2.png) [@prat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prat)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-is-not-starting-after-adding-metricbeat-keystore/284223/21 "2021-09-15T16:59:58Z")

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Hi @stephenb,

You are right. If inside directory then we can run commands as mentioned in doc.  
May be a caution note can be added saying if outside of config directory then used complete options as `--path.config` and `--path.data`.

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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: [October 13, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-is-not-starting-after-adding-metricbeat-keystore/284223/22 "2021-10-13T19:00:31Z")

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