# No services sent out. Message error : The system cannot find the file specified

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-services-sent-out-message-error-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-specified/159906>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [December 7, 2018, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-services-sent-out-message-error-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-specified/159906 "2018-12-07T10:31:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![jorisbos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jorisbos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jorisbos)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-services-sent-out-message-error-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-specified/159906/1 "2018-12-07T10:31:43Z")

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I'm running metricbeat on four of our servers and they have been working for a couple of weeks. Until today where one of the machines stopped sending the windows services. I now only get a single event:

| @timestamp | | Dec 7th, 11:28:35 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| t \_id | | NGk2iGcBkvVnaVY7Q4lf |
| t \_index | | metricbeat-6.4.2-2018.12.07 |
| # \_score | | - |
| t \_type | | doc |
| t beat.hostname | | CENSORED |
| t beat.name | | CENSORED |
| t beat.version | | 6.4.2 |
| t error.message | | The system cannot find the file specified. |
| t host.name | | CENSORED |
| t metricset.module | | windows |
| t metricset.name | | service |
| # metricset.rtt | | 10001 |
| t tags | | conversions, application-tier |

This is the windows.yml file  
- module: windows  
metricsets:  
- service  
period: 1m

I tried running the metricbeat as an executable but there is no Err or Warn visible. It just sends out this event.

The host is running Windows 2012 Standard

Any idea on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks

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**Author:** ![jorisbos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jorisbos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jorisbos)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-services-sent-out-message-error-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-specified/159906/2 "2018-12-07T14:45:25Z")

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I've updated now to 6.5.1 but the issue still exists

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-services-sent-out-message-error-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-specified/159906/3 "2018-12-10T13:24:39Z")

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Could you share the log file?

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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:** [January 7, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-services-sent-out-message-error-the-system-cannot-find-the-file-specified/159906/4 "2019-01-07T13:24:46Z")

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