# Newbie and need help

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-and-need-help/102298>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 29, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-and-need-help/102298 "2017-09-29T18:25:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![bjvista](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@bjvista](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bjvista)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-and-need-help/102298/1 "2017-09-29T18:25:53Z")

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I have a server running ElasticSearch. It's working and receiving logs from a bunch of our VM's. On a different server on the network I have installed Filebeat. This server stores JSON logs from another application. I am attempting to use Filebeat to process the JSON logs and send them to the ElasticSearch server on the network. But in Kibana, I am not seeing any results from these JSON logs like I am seeing for the other logs coming from the VM's.

I am pretty confident I have Filebeat configured correctly.

1. Running filebeat -configtest -e shows everything is OK.
2. Under C:\Program Files\Filebeat\logs I see log file created showing that harvesters are starting and closing.

In Kibana, I've setup the index pattern. There are two, winlogbeat\* which is working and has events from the VMs; and another filebeat-\* which is giving no results.

In my yml config file for filebeat I have have the ElasticSearch output enabled. If I copy the host address/port from the yml ElasticSearch output and paste it in to the browser on the server that has Filebeat on it, I get a JSON file to download that shows the ELK servers name, cluster\_name, cluster\_uuid, etc...

What am I missing? Are there any other log files I can collect for further troubleshooting?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-and-need-help/102298/2 "2017-10-01T22:03:54Z")

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Does the filebeat log show it's connected to Elasticsearch?  
Are you using the default index name in the output?

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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 29, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-and-need-help/102298/3 "2017-10-29T22:08:11Z")

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