# RHEL6 MetricBeat Service Start Issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [January 30, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rhel6-metricbeat-service-start-issues/352077 "2024-01-30T10:41:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sajmeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@sajmeister](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sajmeister)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rhel6-metricbeat-service-start-issues/352077/1 "2024-01-30T10:41:20Z")
Hi, We are having issues getting the MetricBeat service to start on RHEL 6 servers. We installed metricbeat-7.17.0-x86\_64.rpm and filebeat-7.17.0-x86\_64.rpm. The FileBeat service starts successfully. However the MetricBeat shows the below. service metricbeat start Starting metricbeat: /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC\_2.14' not found (required by /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat) As you know RHEL6 is out of support. Even if we did manage to upgrade GLIBC to required version this could potentially break other stuff. Any ideas please ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![yago82](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yago82/32/97755_2.png) [@yago82](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yago82)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rhel6-metricbeat-service-start-issues/352077/2 "2024-01-30T10:47:57Z")
> [@sajmeister](#): > > Hi, > > We are having issues getting the MetricBeat service to start on RHEL 6 servers. > > We installed metricbeat-7.17.0-x86\_64.rpm and filebeat-7.17.0-x86\_64.rpm. The FileBeat service starts successfully. However the MetricBeat shows the below. > > service metricbeat start > Starting metricbeat: /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC\_2.14' not found (required by /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat) > > As you know RHEL6 is out of support. Even if we did manage to upgrade GLIBC to required version this could potentially break other stuff. > > Any ideas please ? > > Thanks Hi, One possible solution could be to use an older version of Metricbeat that is compatible with the GLIBC version available on your RHEL 6 servers. However, this might not be the best solution as older versions might lack some features and improvements. Regards ---
**Author:** ![sajmeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@sajmeister](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sajmeister)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rhel6-metricbeat-service-start-issues/352077/3 "2024-01-30T10:53:41Z")
Yago82 what version would you recommend here then ? ---
**Author:** ![yago82](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yago82/32/97755_2.png) [@yago82](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yago82)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rhel6-metricbeat-service-start-issues/352077/4 "2024-01-30T10:57:45Z")
Hi, RHEL 6 comes with GLIBC version 2.12 by default. Metricbeat version 6.8 is the last version that supports GLIBC 2.12. So, you could try installing Metricbeat 6.8. Regards ---
**Author:** ![sajmeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@sajmeister](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sajmeister)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rhel6-metricbeat-service-start-issues/352077/5 "2024-01-30T10:58:59Z")
Thanks for the suggestion yago82. we will try that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rhel6-metricbeat-service-start-issues/352077/6 "2024-02-27T12:59:21Z")
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