Unable to start the metric beat in ELK 6.5.4

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Hi Team,

I have successfully installed and enabled mongod module for metricbeat in elk 6.5.4

while starting the metricbeat facing below error and i have checked metricbeat.yml file seems fine.

**Error Log: **
2018-11-30T06:21:51.508Z ERROR cfgfile/reload.go:223 Error loading config: invalid config: yaml: line 4: mapping values are not allowed in this context
2018-11-30T06:21:51.510Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:152 Total non-zero metrics {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":20,"time":{"ms":27}},"total":{"ticks":50,"time":{"ms":63},"value":50},"user":{"ticks":30,"time":{"ms":36}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":4096,"soft":1024},"open":7},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"6bc3ff29-25df-4e55-b78d-c69a8ee421a7","uptime":{"ms":45}},"memstats":{"gc_next":4981776,"memory_alloc":3535312,"memory_total":9285336,"rss":23425024}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":0}},"output":{"type":"elasticsearch"},"pipeline":{"clients":0,"events":{"active":0}}},"system":{"cpu":{"cores":2},"load":{"1":0.01,"15":0.05,"5":0.02,"norm":{"1":0.005,"15":0.025,"5":0.01}}}}}}
2018-11-30T06:21:51.510Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:153 Uptime: 46.642506ms
2018-11-30T06:21:51.510Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:130 Stopping metrics logging.
2018-11-30T06:21:51.510Z INFO instance/beat.go:410 metricbeat stopped.
2018-11-30T06:21:51.513Z ERROR instance/beat.go:800 Exiting: 1 error: invalid config: yaml: line 4: mapping values are not allowed in this context

Please help me to resolve the issue?

Thanks in advance.

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As the error message is complaining about the config, it would help if you showed it.

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Below is my metric beat yml file

cat /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml

#========================== Modules configuration ============================

metricbeat.config.modules:

Glob pattern for configuration loading

path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml

Set to true to enable config reloading

reload.enabled: false

Period on which files under path should be checked for changes

reload.period: 10s

#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ==========================

setup.template.settings:
index.number_of_shards: 1
index.codec: best_compression
#_source.enabled: false

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

#============================== Dashboards =====================================

#============================== Kibana =====================================

Starting with Beats version 6.0.0, the dashboards are loaded via the Kibana API.

This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration.

setup.kibana:

Kibana Host

Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 5601)

In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: http://localhost:5601/path

IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601

host: "localhost:5601"

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

Configure what output to use when sending the data collected by the beat.

#-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------
output.elasticsearch:

Array of hosts to connect to.

hosts: ["localhost:9200"]

Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.

#protocol: "https"
username: ""
password: ""

#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------

#================================ Procesors =====================================

Configure processors to enhance or manipulate events generated by the beat.

processors:

  • add_host_metadata: ~
  • add_cloud_metadata: ~

#============================== Xpack Monitoring ===============================

xpack.monitoring.enabled: true

xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch:

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Please use the </> tool in the UI to format the config properly. As it is now it is very hard to read, which may make it hard to spot any issues.

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   #==========================  Modules configuration ============================

metricbeat.config.modules:
  # Glob pattern for configuration loading
   path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml

  # Set to true to enable config reloading
   reload.enabled: false

  # Period on which files under path should be checked for changes
   reload.period: 10s

#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ==========================

setup.template.settings:
  index.number_of_shards: 1
  index.codec: best_compression
  #_source.enabled: false


#============================== Kibana =====================================

# Starting with Beats version 6.0.0, the dashboards are loaded via the Kibana API.
# This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration.
setup.kibana:

  # Kibana Host
  # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 5601)
  # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: http://localhost:5601/path
  # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601
   host: "localhost:5601"

  

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

# Configure what output to use when sending the data collected by the beat.

#-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------
output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
   hosts: ["localhost:9200"]

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


#================================ Procesors =====================================

# Configure processors to enhance or manipulate events generated by the beat.

processors:
  - add_host_metadata: ~
  - add_cloud_metadata: ~



#============================== Xpack Monitoring ===============================

xpack.monitoring.enabled: true

xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch:
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@Christian_Dahlqvist

any config issue with above yaml code ?

7

What does the config file for the module look like?

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/etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml

9

Based on the error message, it seems to be complaining about the config file maybe specifically to mongodb. Can you show us what's the config.yml look like for mongodb please?

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