# Unable to configure haproxy bouncer

**URL:** <https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/unable-to-configure-haproxy-bouncer/1544>\
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**Created:** [December 6, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/unable-to-configure-haproxy-bouncer/1544 "2023-12-06T14:25:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![aaleksandrov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@aaleksandrov](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/aaleksandrov)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/unable-to-configure-haproxy-bouncer/1544/1 "2023-12-06T14:25:08Z")

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Hi All,

I am trying to configure Crowdsec on a haproxy server, in order to block IPs that have bad behavior ,m without success. I am unable to make the crowdsec to read the haproxy.log file. I installed the crowdsecurity/haproxy-logs and added the the location of the log file inside /etc/crowdsec/acquis.yaml.  
When I list the metrics, the log file and the parser are not visible there, but when I list the parsers, I see that the haproxy parser is enabled.  
During the reload of the crowdsec service, I see that the following entry:  
level=info msg=“File datasource /var/log/haproxy.log stopping” tail=/var/log/haproxy.log type=file

The idea is to make crowdsec ban IPs based on behavior or based on bad reputation, so that the haproxy won§t forward them to the backends.

OS: Ubuntu 22.04  
Haproxy 2.4.22  
Crowdsec v1.5.5

Thank you,  
Aleksandar Aleksandrov

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**Author:** ![iiAmLoz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discourse.crowdsec.net/iiamloz/32/386_2.png) [@iiAmLoz](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/iiAmLoz)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/unable-to-configure-haproxy-bouncer/1544/2 "2023-12-11T14:13:38Z")

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When you reload crowdsec do you see a log about it starting the monitor the file?

Could you provide some more information about the setup is it bare metal or virtualization?