# Winlogbeat failed to start after adding add\_host\_metadata

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-failed-to-start-after-adding-add-host-metadata/145733>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-failed-to-start-after-adding-add-host-metadata/145733 "2018-08-23T13:02:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![PeterDK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peterdk/32/49432_2.png) [@PeterDK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PeterDK)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-failed-to-start-after-adding-add-host-metadata/145733/1 "2018-08-23T13:02:49Z")

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Hi,

since upgrading Elastic to 6.3, we added the add\_host\_metadata processor to our beats yml files.  
We know that we cannot use it on the windows 2003 servers.  
But it seems not to work on Windows 2008 SP2 64-bit servers also, although it works on the 32-bit version.  
Any idea's on how to solve this?

The added part:  
processors:

- add\_host\_metadata:  
netinfo.enabled: true

When adding this to the yml file of winlogbeat for example, the service crashes and the following error is logged:  
ERROR instance/beat.go:691 Exiting: error initializing publisher: error initializing processors: 1 error: GetNativeSystemInfo failed: invalid argument

Thanks,  
Peter

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-failed-to-start-after-adding-add-host-metadata/145733/2 "2018-08-23T23:38:38Z")

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Can you try upgrading to 6.4.0? That bug should be fixed. [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/7764](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/7764)

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**Author:** ![PeterDK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/peterdk/32/49432_2.png) [@PeterDK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PeterDK)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-failed-to-start-after-adding-add-host-metadata/145733/3 "2018-08-24T06:58:12Z")

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Aha, thanks! Didn't see that one.  
We will do another update round then 🙂

Regards,  
Peter

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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:** [September 21, 2018, 6:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-failed-to-start-after-adding-add-host-metadata/145733/4 "2018-09-21T06:58:24Z")

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