# Unable to start the metric beat in ELK 6.5.4
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [November 30, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859 "2018-11-30T06:35:02Z")
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### Author:  [@subhash.parise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/subhash.parise)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/1 "2018-11-30T06:35:02Z")
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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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/2 "2018-11-30T06:44:44Z")
As the error message is complaining about the config, it would help if you showed it.
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### Author:  [@subhash.parise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/subhash.parise)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/3 "2018-11-30T06:53:43Z")
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](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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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/4 "2018-11-30T06:55:25Z")
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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### Author:  [@subhash.parise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/subhash.parise)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/5 "2018-11-30T07:00:23Z")
```
#========================== 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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### Author:  [@subhash.parise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/subhash.parise)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/6 "2018-11-30T07:23:43Z")
@Christian_Dahlqvist
any config issue with above yaml code ?
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/7 "2018-11-30T07:27:15Z")
What does the config file for the module look like?
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### Author:  [@subhash.parise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/subhash.parise)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2018, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/8 "2018-11-30T07:28:29Z")
/etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml
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### Author:  [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/9 "2018-12-01T03:21:30Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-the-metric-beat-in-elk-6-5-4/158859/10 "2018-12-29T03:21:34Z")
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