title: Filebeat Service will not start on CentOS 7
body: <p>Filebeat will not start on my CentOS 7 box. I have Logstash running fine, Kibana can be accessed, and I even installed packetbeat to see if it was something wrong with the beats, but Packetbeat works fine.</p>
  
  <p>Here is what is happening when I try to start filebeat:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pkbKh.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pkbKh.jpg" alt="System status failure"></a></p>
  
  <p>Here are the filebeat logs:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pkbKh.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9FJ1k.jpg" alt="Filebeat Logs"></a></p>
  
  <p>My Filebeat config passes the '-configtest' option, so it can't be that. The only output that I get from the debugging option is this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exiting: Could not start registrar: Error loading state: Error decoding states: EOF
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have also tried these two commands to no avail:</p>
  
  <pre><code>systemctl reset-failed filebeat.service
  systemctl start filebeat.service
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Anyone have any other commands to try to try and get this to work? </p>