# Packet Beat not sending any data
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packet-beat-not-sending-any-data/206868
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** packetbeat
**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packet-beat-not-sending-any-data/206868 "2019-11-06T22:22:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Mhodge13](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mhodge13)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packet-beat-not-sending-any-data/206868/1 "2019-11-06T22:22:15Z")
Hi,
Started noticing issues today with packet beat not sending any data to our elasticsearch SIEM. I started debug logging and found this constantly happening.
| 2019-11-06T16:15:10.000-0600 | DEBUG | [flows] | flows/worker.go:121 | worker tick, nTimeout=2, nPeriod=0 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:10.000-0600 | DEBUG | [flows] | flows/worker.go:143 | exec tick, timeout=false, report=true |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:10.071-0600 | DEBUG | [sniffer] | sniffer/sniffer.go:185 | Interrupted |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:10.571-0600 | DEBUG | [sniffer] | sniffer/sniffer.go:185 | Interrupted |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:11.071-0600 | DEBUG | [sniffer] | sniffer/sniffer.go:185 | Interrupted |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:11.571-0600 | DEBUG | [sniffer] | sniffer/sniffer.go:185 | Interrupted |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:12.072-0600 | DEBUG | [sniffer] | sniffer/sniffer.go:185 | Interrupted |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:12.573-0600 | DEBUG | [sniffer] | sniffer/sniffer.go:185 | Interrupted |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:13.088-0600 | DEBUG | [sniffer] | sniffer/sniffer.go:185 | Interrupted |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:13.590-0600 | DEBUG | [sniffer] | sniffer/sniffer.go:185 | Interrupted |
| 2019-11-06T16:15:14.105-0600 | DEBUG | [sniffer] | sniffer/sniffer.go:185 | Interrupted |
Including config file blow:
#============================== Network device ================================
# Select the network interface to sniff the data. On Linux, you can use the
# "any" keyword to sniff on all connected interfaces.
packetbeat.interfaces.device: 0
#================================== Flows =====================================
# Set `enabled: false` or comment out all options to disable flows reporting.
packetbeat.flows:
# Set network flow timeout. Flow is killed if no packet is received before being
# timed out.
timeout: 30s
enabled: true
# Configure reporting period. If set to -1, only killed flows will be reported
period: 10s
#========================== Transaction protocols =============================
packetbeat.protocols:
- type: icmp
- type: amqp
- type: cassandra
#Cassandra port for traffic monitoring.
ports: [9042]
- type: dhcpv4
- type: dns
- type: http
- type: memcache
- type: mysql
- type: pgsql
- type: redis
- type: thrift
- type: mongodb
- type: nfs
- type: tls
#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ==========================
setup.template.settings:
index.number\_of\_shards: 1
#index.codec: best\_compression
#\_source.enabled: false
#================================ Logging =====================================
# Sets log level. The default log level is info.
# Available log levels are: error, warning, info, debug
logging.to\_files: true
logging.level: debug
logging.files:
path: C:\Program Files\packetbeat\Logs
name: packetbeat
keepfiles: 7
permissions: 0644
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### Author:  [@SRS1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SRS1)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packet-beat-not-sending-any-data/206868/2 "2019-11-19T10:16:50Z")
I have two packetbeats running im my system, and one of them are seeing this issue. (The other one works well)
The only difference is that logstash is located on the localhost on one of them, the other one is remote.
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### Author:  [@SRS1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SRS1)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2019, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packet-beat-not-sending-any-data/206868/3 "2019-11-19T10:24:51Z")
And my stupidity is confirmed!
Use the packetbeat.exe device - and change the number accordingly! (....as stated in the user guide)
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### Author:  [@Mhodge13](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mhodge13)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packet-beat-not-sending-any-data/206868/4 "2019-11-19T11:39:59Z")
I'll give this a shot.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/packet-beat-not-sending-any-data/206868/5 "2019-12-17T11:40:00Z")
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