# Unable to setup Beats on my local system

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-beats-on-my-local-system/283614>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat, metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 8, 2021, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-beats-on-my-local-system/283614 "2021-09-08T06:21:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Adhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Adhi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adhi)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-beats-on-my-local-system/283614/1 "2021-09-08T06:21:27Z")

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Hello,

I'm having trouble seting up both filebeat and metricbeat agent in my local system.  
Im currently using the 14 days free cloud trail version, I have followed the steps given.  
So whenever I ran setup command, im getting the 408 - timeout error.

```auto
PS C:\Program Files\filebeat> .\filebeat.exe setup
Overwriting ILM policy is disabled. Set `setup.ilm.overwrite: true` for enabling.
Index setup finished.
Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)
Exiting: 1 error: error loading index pattern: returned 408 to import file: <nil>. Response: {"statusCode":408,"error":"Request Time-out","message":"Request Time-out"}

```

```auto
*PS C:\Program Files\Metricbeat> .\metricbeat.exe setup*
*Overwriting ILM policy is disabled. Set `setup.ilm.overwrite: true` for enabling.*
*Index setup finished.*
*Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)*
*Exiting: 1 error: error loading index pattern: returned 408 to import file: <nil>. Response: {"statusCode":408,"error":"Request Time-out","message":"Request Time-out"}*

```

Could someone please help me on this.

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**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-beats-on-my-local-system/283614/2 "2021-09-08T06:33:06Z")

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Hi Adhi!

What version are you using? Maybe you hit [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/27586](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/27586).

C.

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**Author:** ![Adhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Adhi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adhi)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 6:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-beats-on-my-local-system/283614/3 "2021-09-08T06:51:09Z")

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Mark,

Both Filebeat and Metricbeat Versions are 7.14.1  
operating System : Windows

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-setup-beats-on-my-local-system/283614/4 "2021-10-06T08:51:10Z")

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