Metricbeat : cannot execute binary file in RHEL/Centos

Dushmantha Charaka February 08, 2019 0 Comments

Metricbeat : cannot execute binary file in RHEL/Centos

You'll encounter this problem when trying run the metricbeat binary file for Operation.

-bash: ./metricbeat: cannot execute binary file

This means the binary file you are trying to execute in not supported to your system type. You have downloaded the wrong metricbeat file. If you are using RHEL/Centos then downloaded the following package and install it.

RHEL/CentOS

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-6.6.0-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -vi metricbeat-6.6.0-x86_64.rpm

For MacOS

curl -L -O https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/metricbeat/metricbeat-6.6.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzvf metricbeat-6.6.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz