# No logs are displayed on Kibana with Filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-logs-are-displayed-on-kibana-with-filebeat/169659>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 23, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-logs-are-displayed-on-kibana-with-filebeat/169659 "2019-02-23T12:16:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@Eva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eva)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-logs-are-displayed-on-kibana-with-filebeat/169659/1 "2019-02-23T12:16:54Z")

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Hello there,  
I have been playing around with Grok filters and I am using a static file that has logs and trying to use grok on the same. I have specified this log file's path in Filebeat config. Though i do not see any error in the logs, Kibana doesnt seem to show up any data. Can soemone please help me know where am i going wrong.

Filebeat logs:

# ========================= 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Home path: [/usr/share/filebeat] Config path: [/etc/filebeat] Data path: [/var/lib/filebeat] Logs path: [/var/log/filebeat] 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 5.6.15 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Metrics logging every 30s 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Max Retries set to: 3 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Activated logstash as output plugin. 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Publisher name: 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Flush Interval set to: 1s 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Max Bulk Size set to: 2048 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO filebeat start running. 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Registry file set to: /var/lib/filebeat/registry 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Loading registrar data from /var/lib/filebeat/registry 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO States Loaded from registrar: 3 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Loading Prospectors: 1 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Prospector with previous states loaded: 0 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Starting prospector of type: log; id: 151738883052083998 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Loading and starting Prospectors completed. Enabled prospectors: 1 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Starting Registrar 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Start sending events to output 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Starting spooler: spool\_size: 2048; idle\_timeout: 5s 2019-02-23T11:51:26Z INFO Harvester started for file: /home/centos/gaia\_api.log 2019-02-23T11:51:56Z INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: filebeat.harvester.open\_files=1 filebeat.harvester.running=1 filebeat.harvester.started=1 libbeat.logstash.call\_count.PublishEvents=1 libbeat.logstash.publish.read\_bytes=6 libbeat.logstash.publish.write\_bytes=27602 libbeat.logstash.published\_and\_acked\_events=591 libbeat.publisher.published\_events=591 publish.events=592 registrar.states.current=4 registrar.states.update=592 registrar.writes=1 2019-02-23T11:52:26Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:52:56Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:53:26Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:53:56Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:54:26Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:54:56Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:55:26Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:55:56Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:56:26Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:56:31Z INFO File is inactive: /home/centos/agapi.log. Closing because close\_inactive of 5m0s reached. 2019-02-23T11:56:56Z INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: filebeat.harvester.closed=1 filebeat.harvester.open\_files=-1 filebeat.harvester.running=-1 publish.events=1 registrar.states.update=1 registrar.writes=1 2019-02-23T11:57:26Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:57:56Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:58:26Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:58:56Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2019-02-23T11:59:26Z INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s

Thanks

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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:** [March 23, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-logs-are-displayed-on-kibana-with-filebeat/169659/2 "2019-03-23T12:18:50Z")

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