# Metricbeat unable to find its own yml config

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-unable-to-find-its-own-yml-config/174846
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [April 1, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-unable-to-find-its-own-yml-config/174846 "2019-04-01T18:52:37Z")
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### Author: ![teamg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@teamg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teamg)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-unable-to-find-its-own-yml-config/174846/1 "2019-04-01T18:52:37Z")

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Installed metricbeat-6.7.0-x86\_64.rpm on my single node ELK 6.7 server. When I go to load dashboards I get the following error:

> [root@elk ~]# /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat -e setup --dashboards  
> Exiting: error loading config file: stat metricbeat.yml: no such file or directory  
> [root@elk ~]# ll /etc/metricbeat/  
> total 516  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 381194 Mar 21 09:41 fields.yml  
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 62005 Mar 21 09:41 metricbeat.reference.yml  
> -rw-------. 1 root root 62038 Apr 1 13:21 metricbeat.yml  
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 1 13:14 modules.d  
> -rw-------. 1 root root 5653 Apr 1 13:15 orig.metricbeat.yml  
> [root@elk ~]#

What am I missing?

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### Author: ![teamg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@teamg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teamg)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-unable-to-find-its-own-yml-config/174846/2 "2019-04-01T20:22:29Z")

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I got passed this error by doing:

> [root@elk ~]# cd /etc/metricbeat/  
> [root@elk metricbeat]# /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat -e setup --dashboards

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### Author: ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-unable-to-find-its-own-yml-config/174846/3 "2019-04-09T23:03:38Z")

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Sorry for the late response... I'm glad you found the solution.

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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: [May 7, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-unable-to-find-its-own-yml-config/174846/4 "2019-05-07T23:03:42Z")

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