# Service Filebeat failed to start
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-filebeat-failed-to-start/59738
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [September 3, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-filebeat-failed-to-start/59738 "2016-09-03T21:19:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ashraf1390](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashraf1390)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-filebeat-failed-to-start/59738/1 "2016-09-03T21:19:36Z")
Installed filebeat on Centos7 client, edit yaml file and filebeat fails to start.. below is error message kindly help..
**[x201@localhost ~]$ sudo systemctl status filebeat -l**
รข filebeat.service - filebeat
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/filebeat.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Sat 2016-09-03 17:10:56 EDT; 21s ago
Docs: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html)
Main PID: 4641 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Sep 03 17:10:56 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: filebeat.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 03 17:10:56 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit filebeat.service entered failed state.
Sep 03 17:10:56 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: filebeat.service failed.
Sep 03 17:10:56 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: filebeat.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Sep 03 17:10:56 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for filebeat.service
Sep 03 17:10:56 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start filebeat.
Sep 03 17:10:56 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit filebeat.service entered failed state.
Sep 03 17:10:56 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: filebeat.service failed.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-filebeat-failed-to-start/59738/2 "2016-09-05T05:48:14Z")
What do the logs show?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-filebeat-failed-to-start/59738/3 "2016-09-24T21:19:36Z")
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