# Metricbeat won't start on boot (AWS EC2, Ubuntu 16.04)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-wont-start-on-boot-aws-ec2-ubuntu-16-04/102706
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [October 4, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-wont-start-on-boot-aws-ec2-ubuntu-16-04/102706 "2017-10-04T12:55:28Z")
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### Author:  [@wrossmorrow](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wrossmorrow)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-wont-start-on-boot-aws-ec2-ubuntu-16-04/102706/1 "2017-10-04T12:55:28Z")
Hi! We're running EC2 instances with Ubuntu 16.04. We have metricbeat installed in the image we use, but it won't start on boot (for new instances or when restarting a stopped instance). Here's the sort of error we get when doing the "standard" sort of thing:
root@master:~# systemctl enable metricbeat
Synchronizing state of metricbeat.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable metricbeat
insserv: script nfs-kernel-server: service nfs-kernel-server already provided!
insserv: script nfs-kernel-server: service nfs-kernel-server already provided!
Anyone have some advice?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-wont-start-on-boot-aws-ec2-ubuntu-16-04/102706/2 "2017-11-01T13:08:55Z")
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