# Cannot Start Logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-logstash/167697>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 9, 2019, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-logstash/167697 "2019-02-09T00:53:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 9, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-start-logstash/167697/2 "2019-02-09T15:03:45Z")

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The error is not logstash specific. It is a java error.

have [a read here](https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserverkb/forking-jvm-error-12-cannot-allocate-memory-or-error-12-not-enough-space-779171744.html) it might help.

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