# "Module directory not found" - filebeat looking in wrong place?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-directory-not-found-filebeat-looking-in-wrong-place/80805>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 31, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-directory-not-found-filebeat-looking-in-wrong-place/80805 "2017-03-31T12:10:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![rozling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rozling/32/16401_2.png) [@rozling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rozling)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-directory-not-found-filebeat-looking-in-wrong-place/80805/1 "2017-03-31T12:10:08Z")

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Hi,

I'm installing filebeat 5.3 from the instructions here:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/5.3/setup-repositories.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/5.3/setup-repositories.html)

Running the command:

`/usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat -configtest -e -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml`

Which gives me an output of:

```auto
2017/03/31 12:06:50.154405 beat.go:285: INFO Home path: [/usr/share/filebeat/bin] Config path: [/usr/share/filebeat/bin] Data path: [/usr/share/filebeat/bin/data] Logs path: [/usr/share/filebeat/bin/logs]
2017/03/31 12:06:50.154453 beat.go:186: INFO Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 5.3.0
2017/03/31 12:06:50.154568 metrics.go:23: INFO Metrics logging every 30s
2017/03/31 12:06:50.154572 logstash.go:90: INFO Max Retries set to: 3
2017/03/31 12:06:50.154671 outputs.go:108: INFO Activated logstash as output plugin.
2017/03/31 12:06:50.154750 publish.go:295: INFO Publisher name: [servername]
2017/03/31 12:06:50.154908 async.go:63: INFO Flush Interval set to: 1s
2017/03/31 12:06:50.154922 async.go:64: INFO Max Bulk Size set to: 2048
2017/03/31 12:06:50.155030 modules.go:93: ERR Not loading modules. Module directory not found: /usr/share/filebeat/bin/module
2017/03/31 12:06:50.155069 config.go:114: INFO Additional config files are fetched from: /etc/filebeat/conf.d
2017/03/31 12:06:50.155123 config.go:87: INFO Additional configs loaded from: /etc/filebeat/conf.d/app_config.yml
Config OK

```

Now, I can see that the modules folder is in `/usr/share/filebeat/module`, so I don't know why it's looking under `bin/`, especially since there doesn't even seem to be a command line flag to set this folder. Any ideas?

My filebeat.yml looks like this:

```auto
    filebeat:
      config_dir: /etc/filebeat/conf.d

    output:

      logstash:
        hosts: ["myhost:5044"]

        tls:
          certificate: "/etc/pki/filebeat/mydomain.com.crt"
          certificate_key: "/etc/pki/filebeat/mydomain.com.key"
    logging:
      level: info
      to_files: true
      to_syslog: false

      files:
        path: /var/log/filebeat
        name: filebeat.log
        keepfiles: 7

```

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**Author:** ![rozling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rozling/32/16401_2.png) [@rozling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rozling)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-directory-not-found-filebeat-looking-in-wrong-place/80805/2 "2017-03-31T12:40:19Z")

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Moved module folder to /usr/share/filebeat/bin, then on running /usr/bin/filebeat.sh it complained that it wasn't in the /usr/share/filebeat folder!

On enabling debug output I am now also seeing the following error:

`No output is defined to store the topology. The server fields might not be filled.`

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**Author:** ![rozling](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rozling/32/16401_2.png) [@rozling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rozling)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-directory-not-found-filebeat-looking-in-wrong-place/80805/3 "2017-03-31T13:02:42Z")

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Solved: just needed to run /usr/share/filebeat/scripts/migrate\_beat\_config\_1\_x\_to\_5\_0.py on my config files

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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:** [April 28, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-directory-not-found-filebeat-looking-in-wrong-place/80805/4 "2017-04-28T13:02:48Z")

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