# Unable to receive the log from filebeat to kafka
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-receive-the-log-from-filebeat-to-kafka/113224
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 26, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-receive-the-log-from-filebeat-to-kafka/113224 "2017-12-26T14:51:41Z")
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### Author:  [@saravana\_ganesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saravana_ganesh)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-receive-the-log-from-filebeat-to-kafka/113224/1 "2017-12-26T14:51:41Z")
Hi,
We are using kafka 2.12 and configure the output as below in the filebeat.
filebeat.prospectors:
- type: log
#============================= Filebeat modules ===============================
filebeat.config.modules:
# Glob pattern for configuration loading
path: ${path.config}/modules.d/\*.yml
# Set to true to enable config reloading
reload.enabled: false
#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ==========================
setup.template.settings:
index.number\_of\_shards: 3
#index.codec: best\_compression
#\_source.enabled: false
#-------------------------- Kafka Output ----------------------------------
output.kafka:
# initial brokers for reading cluster metadata
hosts: ["localhost:9092"]
# message topic selection + partitioning
topic: 'logs'
partition.round\_robin:
reachable\_only: false
required\_acks: 1
compression: gzip
max\_message\_bytes: 1000000
logging:
files:
rotateeverybytes: 10485760 # = 10MB
We have check the logs in the kafka there is no log on it.
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-receive-the-log-from-filebeat-to-kafka/113224/2 "2017-12-28T02:13:10Z")
Could you share the Filebeat version you are using and the filebeat log file? Please make sure to format it (same for the config above).
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### Author:  [@saravana\_ganesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saravana_ganesh)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-receive-the-log-from-filebeat-to-kafka/113224/3 "2017-12-28T05:58:11Z")
filebeat-6.1.1
Filebeat log given below :
INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: beat.info.uptime.ms=30000 beat.memstats.gc\_next=4473924 beat.memstats.memory\_alloc=3313200 beat.memstats.memory\_total=3313200 filebeat.harvester.open\_files=0 filebeat.harvester.running=0 libbeat.config.module.running=0 libbeat.pipeline.clients=0 libbeat.pipeline.events.active=0 registrar.states.current=0
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### Author:  [@ktella](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ktella)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-receive-the-log-from-filebeat-to-kafka/113224/4 "2017-12-29T01:35:15Z")
Not trying to hijack the thread, but i too have the exact issue.
Created a new thread "Unable send logs from filebeat 6 to kafka"
I have tried with my old filebeat 5.x version and its working perfect.
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-receive-the-log-from-filebeat-to-kafka/113224/5 "2018-01-03T22:58:49Z")
Can you both share your full log (best in debug mode) and config?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-receive-the-log-from-filebeat-to-kafka/113224/6 "2018-01-31T22:58:52Z")
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