# Unable to view Analytics and API Logs : Is Filebeat running well?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-view-analytics-and-api-logs-is-filebeat-running-well/214075>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 7, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-view-analytics-and-api-logs-is-filebeat-running-well/214075 "2020-01-07T14:47:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![The-Big-K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/the-big-k/32/56199_2.png) [@The-Big-K](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/The-Big-K)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-view-analytics-and-api-logs-is-filebeat-running-well/214075/1 "2020-01-07T14:47:55Z")

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Very new to ES ecosystem and enjoying the learning process. I've got ES and App-Search (Self-Hosted) running on Ubuntu. The only problem now is that I cannot see API logs and Analytics in my app-search dashboard. Apparantly, filebeat was not running.

I therefore installed filebeat using

```auto
curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-7.5.1-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i filebeat-7.5.1-amd64.deb

```

added elasticsearch log path to filebeat.yml file in /etc/filebeat/

```auto
  # Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
  paths:
    - /var/log/elasticsearch/*
    #- c:\programdata\elasticsearch\logs\*

```

then ran following commands -

```auto
sudo systemctl enable filebeat
sudo systemctl start filebeat

```

`systemctl status filebeat` outputs the following

```auto
Jan 07 14:42:09 my-server filebeat[13734]: 2020-01-07T14:42:09.866Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:145 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":30,"tim

```

which makes me think that filebeat is running successfully; and tracking. But I do not see anything in my app-search dashboard.

Am I missing any step? Please help.

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**Author:** ![The-Big-K](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/the-big-k/32/56199_2.png) [@The-Big-K](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/The-Big-K)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-view-analytics-and-api-logs-is-filebeat-running-well/214075/2 "2020-01-07T16:09:05Z")

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Update: I found out that there is a `filebeat` directory inside /usr/share/app-search/ . I wonder if I really needed to install filebeat separately?

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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:** [February 4, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-view-analytics-and-api-logs-is-filebeat-running-well/214075/3 "2020-02-04T16:09:13Z")

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