# Not able to create a new Beat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-a-new-beat/73099
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [January 28, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-a-new-beat/73099 "2017-01-28T19:06:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@newcoder99](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/newcoder99)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-a-new-beat/73099/1 "2017-01-28T19:06:23Z")
Hello Everyone,
I am trying to a custom beat. I have done the installation of Go and cookiecutter. Now when I am trying to execute the below command, it gives following error.
"A valid repository for "D:\ELSTACK\CreateBeats\beats\_master\src\[github.com](http://github.com)\elast
ic\beats\generate\beat" could not be found in the following locations:
D:\ELSTACK\CreateBeats\beats\_master\src\[github.com](http://github.com)\elastic\beats\generate\beat
D:\ELSTACK\CreateBeats\beats\_master\src\[github.com](http://github.com)\elastic\beats\generate\beat"
cookiecutter "D:\ELSTACK\CreateBeats\beats\_master\src\[github.com](http://github.com)\elastic\beats\generate\beat"
I am confused a bit because I donot know where I am making mistake.
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### Author:  [@JKhondhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JKhondhu)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2017, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-a-new-beat/73099/2 "2017-01-29T11:06:00Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/5.1/newbeat-generate.html#newbeat-generate](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/5.1/newbeat-generate.html#newbeat-generate)
Did you create a directory under $GOPATH?
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2017, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-a-new-beat/73099/3 "2017-01-30T07:16:29Z")
This is a mistake on my side. I changed the generator to not use cookiecutter anymore. Here can be found the up-to-date docs when using master: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/master/newbeat-generate.html#newbeat-generate](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/master/newbeat-generate.html#newbeat-generate)
To generate a beat based on the stable 5.1 branch, you have to do the following two commands:
```auto
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/elastic/beats
git checkout 5.1
```
Now cookiecuttter should work again as before. I will update / fix the docs in the next days. Sorry about that.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-a-new-beat/73099/4 "2017-02-18T19:06:42Z")
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