Stat metricbeat.yml: no such file or directory

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Hi,
I am new with the Beats. I did a yum install of metricbeat and followed the instructions on Elastic site for setting up a keystore but oddly when I try to do:

/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat keystore create

I get:

/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat keystore create error initializing beat: error loading config file: stat metricbeat.yml: no such file or directory

On another machine, we installed filebeat without and created the keystore with no issues. Has anyone experienced this? What caused it? Thank you.

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Hey @teej,

Try to run this command without the full path, just like this:

metricbeat keystore create
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J,
That worked! But why? I mean thank you but Im curious why the full path didnt work? Usually when doing this with the elastic keystore its the full path that works.

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The metricbeat that is in your path is a script, located in /usr/bin/metricbeat that sets some flags and then runs the binary in /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat.

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Thank you Jaime.

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