# Unable to start filebeat agent **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 3, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-filebeat-agent/142904 "2018-08-03T12:12:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![subbu5678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@subbu5678](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/subbu5678)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-filebeat-agent/142904/1 "2018-08-03T12:12:50Z")
Hi team, I am unable to start filebeat service on a centos 7 server. Here is my filebeat.yml file ## filebeat: ~ level: Error logging: files: keepfiles: 7 name: filebeat.log path: /var/log/filebeat rotateeverybytes: 10485760 to\_files: true to\_syslog: false output: logstash: hosts: - "xxxxx" prospectors: ``` input_type: log paths: - /var/log/messages ``` registry\_file: /var/lib/filebeat/registry tail\_files: true error: ● filebeat.service - filebeat Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/filebeat.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2018-08-03 07:13:35 EDT; 1h 3min ago Docs: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/index.html) Process: 2878 ExecStart=/usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml -path.home /usr/share/filebeat -path.config /etc/filebeat -path.data /var/lib/filebeat -path.logs /var/log/filebeat (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 2878 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Kindly help Thanks, Subbu ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-filebeat-agent/142904/2 "2018-08-31T12:12:51Z")
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