Unable to publish logs from Windows Server

I am using Filebeat 5.6 to send logs to elastic. After starting the file beat , always getting below line in log file.

C:\opt\filebeat\bin>filebeat -e -d "publish"
2018/06/29 14:43:03.372455 beat.go:297: INFO Home path: [C:\opt\filebeat\bin] Co
nfig path: [C:\opt\filebeat\bin] Data path: [C:\opt\filebeat\bin\data] Logs path
: [C:\opt\filebeat\bin\logs]
2018/06/29 14:43:03.372455 metrics.go:23: INFO Metrics logging every 30s
2018/06/29 14:43:03.373455 beat.go:192: INFO Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 5.6.
2
2018/06/29 14:43:03.373455 logstash.go:90: INFO Max Retries set to: 3
2018/06/29 14:43:03.373455 outputs.go:108: INFO Activated logstash as output plu
gin.
2018/06/29 14:43:03.374455 publish.go:243: DBG  Create output worker
2018/06/29 14:43:03.374455 publish.go:285: DBG  No output is defined to store th
e topology. The server fields might not be filled.
2018/06/29 14:43:03.374455 publish.go:300: INFO Publisher name: ldncagsaqi600ua
2018/06/29 14:43:03.382455 async.go:63: INFO Flush Interval set to: 1s
2018/06/29 14:43:03.382455 async.go:64: INFO Max Bulk Size set to: 2048
2018/06/29 14:43:03.382455 async.go:72: DBG  create bulk processing worker (inte
rval=1s, bulk size=2048)
2018/06/29 14:43:03.383455 beat.go:233: INFO filebeat start running.
2018/06/29 14:43:03.384455 registrar.go:85: INFO Registry file set to: C:\opt\fi
lebeat\bin\data\registry
2018/06/29 14:43:03.384455 registrar.go:106: INFO Loading registrar data from C:
\opt\filebeat\bin\data\registry
2018/06/29 14:43:03.385455 registrar.go:123: INFO States Loaded from registrar:
0
2018/06/29 14:43:03.385455 registrar.go:236: INFO Starting Registrar
2018/06/29 14:43:03.385455 crawler.go:38: INFO Loading Prospectors: 1
2018/06/29 14:43:03.385455 sync.go:41: INFO Start sending events to output
2018/06/29 14:43:03.385455 spooler.go:63: INFO Starting spooler: spool_size: 204
8; idle_timeout: 5s
2018/06/29 14:43:03.386455 prospector_log.go:65: INFO Prospector with previous s
tates loaded: 0
2018/06/29 14:43:03.387455 prospector.go:124: INFO Starting prospector of type:
log; id: 17456318105674495528
2018/06/29 14:43:03.387455 crawler.go:58: INFO Loading and starting Prospectors
completed. Enabled prospectors: 1
2018/06/29 14:43:33.372455 metrics.go:34: INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 3
0s
2018/06/29 14:44:03.370455 metrics.go:34: INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 3
0s
2018/06/29 14:44:33.368455 metrics.go:34: INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 3
0s
2018/06/29 14:45:03.367455 metrics.go:34: INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 3
0s

Please help what is wrong here.

YML Config below

###################### Filebeat Configuration Example #########################

# This file is an example configuration file highlighting only the most common
# options. The filebeat.full.yml file from the same directory contains all the
# supported options with more comments. You can use it as a reference.
#
# You can find the full configuration reference here:
# https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/index.html

#=========================== Filebeat prospectors =============================

filebeat.prospectors:

# Each - is a prospector. Most options can be set at the prospector level, so
# you can use different prospectors for various configurations.
# Below are the prospector specific configurations.

- input_type: log

  # Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
  paths:
    #- /var/log/*.log
    -D:\QISDSP\Releases\Release 4.6.2.3\MQA Service\Log.txt

  # Exclude lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It drops the lines that are
  # matching any regular expression from the list.
  #exclude_lines: ["^DBG"]

  # Include lines. A list of regular expressions to match. It exports the lines that are
  # matching any regular expression from the list.
  #include_lines: ["^ERR", "^WARN"]

  # Exclude files. A list of regular expressions to match. Filebeat drops the files that
  # are matching any regular expression from the list. By default, no files are dropped.
  #exclude_files: [".gz$"]

  # Optional additional fields. These field can be freely picked
  # to add additional information to the crawled log files for filtering
  #fields:
  #  level: debug
  #  review: 1

  ### Multiline options

  # Mutiline can be used for log messages spanning multiple lines. This is common
  # for Java Stack Traces or C-Line Continuation

  # The regexp Pattern that has to be matched. The example pattern matches all lines starting with [
  #multiline.pattern: ^\[

  # Defines if the pattern set under pattern should be negated or not. Default is false.
  #multiline.negate: false

  # Match can be set to "after" or "before". It is used to define if lines should be append to a pattern
  # that was (not) matched before or after or as long as a pattern is not matched based on negate.
  # Note: After is the equivalent to previous and before is the equivalent to to next in Logstash
  #multiline.match: after


#================================ General =====================================

# The name of the shipper that publishes the network data. It can be used to group
# all the transactions sent by a single shipper in the web interface.
#name:

# The tags of the shipper are included in their own field with each
# transaction published.
#tags: ["service-X", "web-tier"]

# Optional fields that you can specify to add additional information to the
# output.
#fields:
#  env: staging

#================================ Outputs =====================================

# Configure what outputs to use when sending the data collected by the beat.
# Multiple outputs may be used.

#-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------
#output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
  #hosts: ["169.171.160.12:5601"]

  # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
  #protocol: "https"
  #username: "elastic"
  #password: "changeme"

#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
output.logstash:
  # The Logstash hosts
  hosts: ["sd-0ec1-e570.nam.nsroot.net:5044"]

  # Optional SSL. By default is off.
  # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications
  #ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]

  # Certificate for SSL client authentication
  #ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"

  # Client Certificate Key
  #ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"

#================================ Logging =====================================

# Sets log level. The default log level is info.
# Available log levels are: critical, error, warning, info, debug
#logging.level: info

# At debug level, you can selectively enable logging only for some components.
# To enable all selectors use ["*"]. Examples of other selectors are "beat",
# "publish", "service".
#logging.selectors: ["*"]

Hello @arun_govindasamy,

I've taken the liberty to add formatting tag to the YAML and the log output for better clarity.

I see some debug statements, but I don't see any errors, could you start filebeat with a * for the debug selector.

filebeat -e -d "*"

Thanks for formatting it.
Actually file beat starts and running fine - but always prints "2018/07/02 12:03:50.566213 metrics.go:34: INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s" . I see only this statement is being printed in logs.
Logs are updating and path in YAML looks fine, still see this message alone.

file_beat

HI , can anyone please update on the issue. Is i am missing something in my YAML configuration ?

Could you please post your debug log files as text (and make sure it's formatted)? I assume your issue has something to do with the path.

Try

    - "D:\QISDSP\Releases\Release 4.6.2.3\MQA Service\Log.txt"

There is a space after the -.

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