# Problems with FileBeat and FreeBSD

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-filebeat-and-freebsd/238067>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-filebeat-and-freebsd/238067 "2020-06-22T10:44:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![daniel.valle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/daniel.valle/32/45891_2.png) [@daniel.valle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daniel.valle)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-filebeat-and-freebsd/238067/1 "2020-06-22T10:44:15Z")

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I am encountering a problem in the filebeat setup for our Elastic Cloud system.

This is our scenario:

- We have a FreeBSD server where several applications are installed.
- Each application generates a set of log files.
- We have configured several spaces in Kibana, one for each application.
- In each space, we have configured different indexes (one per file) and an index\_pattern for each space.
- We want to take the log files using filebeat and load them in Elastic Cloud, loading each data block in its space and corresponding index.

I am trying to install filebeat on a test server, with a single log file, to check that the communication between my server and Kibana is successful.

However, I can't get filebeat to work.

I have installed filebeat and configured file filebeat.yml with the following parameters:

paths:

- /tmp/logs/\*.log

[cloud.id](http://cloud.id): "JaniumBI: XXXX

cloud.auth: "elastic: password"

but the system constantly shows me the following error message:

"ERROR instance / metrics.go: 91 Error while getting memory usage: error retrieving process stats: cannot find matching process for pid = 18357"

Does this error have something to do with filebeat? It looks like you're trying to get system usage statistics, but I don't have any other modules configured.

Is it possible to use filebeat as we have thought?

I have seen that I can configure the output to link to the Elastic Cloud (although it still does not work for me) but I do not see the way to configure each block of logs for a specific space and index.

Thank you very much for your help,

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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:** [July 20, 2020, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-filebeat-and-freebsd/238067/2 "2020-07-20T12:44:15Z")

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