This section contains frequently asked questions about Functionbeat. Also check out the Functionbeat discussion forum.

Deployment to AWS fails with "failed to create the stack"?edit

Deployment fails if you attempt to deploy the Lambda function to the wrong region.

You must deploy the function to the region where your services are running. For example, if you want to monitor CloudWatch logs for a service running in the us-east-1 region, you must deploy the Lambda function to the same region, or deployment fails.

Error loading config file?edit

You may encounter errors loading the config file on POSIX operating systems if:

See Config File Ownership and Permissions for more about resolving these errors.

Found Unexpected or Unknown Characters?edit

Either there is a problem with the structure of your config file, or you have used a path or expression that the YAML parser cannot resolve because the config file contains characters that aren’t properly escaped.

If the YAML file contains paths with spaces or unusual characters, wrap the paths in single quotation marks (see Wrap paths in single quotation marksedit).

Also see the general advice under YAML tips and gotchas.

Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expectededit

If you are running multiple Beat instances on the same host, make sure they each have a distinct path.data value.