AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'update'

[nitz98]

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'update'
Reading Elastic 7 index mappings:
Reading index mapping 'es_mappings/7/silence.json'
Reading index mapping 'es_mappings/7/elastalert_status.json'
Reading index mapping 'es_mappings/7/elastalert.json'
Reading index mapping 'es_mappings/7/past_elastalert.json'
Reading index mapping 'es_mappings/7/elastalert_error.json'
Index elastalert_status already exists. Skipping index creation.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/elastalert", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/elastalert/elastalert.py", line 1862, in main
client = ElastAlerter(args)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/elastalert/elastalert.py", line 127, in init
self.rules = self.rules_loader.load(self.conf, self.args)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/elastalert/loaders.py", line 166, in load
rule = self.load_configuration(rule_file, conf, args)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/elastalert/loaders.py", line 227, in load_configuration
rule = self.load_yaml(filename)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/elastalert/loaders.py", line 257, in load_yaml
loaded.update(rule)

My container is exiting with above error. Whats wrong here? It was working sometimes back.

[jertel]

Most likely your rule file disappeared from the filesystem.