# Check if logstash running

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-running/98383>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 25, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-running/98383 "2017-08-25T14:41:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![henrilabarre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/henrilabarre/32/16909_2.png) [@henrilabarre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/henrilabarre)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-running/98383/1 "2017-08-25T14:41:30Z")

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I need to be sure that logstash is running and my logstash process too. Do you know if I can build a cron (or something like that) in order to verify the well running?

Thanks a lot

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-running/98383/2 "2017-08-25T20:39:20Z")

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Of course you can do that, but _how_ depends more on your operating system and how Logstash is started.

You might also want to look into heartbeat monitoring to check that Logstash's pipeline is actually processing events. That has been covered here before and I usually post people to [Lovebeat](https://github.com/boivie/lovebeat).

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**Author:** ![henrilabarre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/henrilabarre/32/16909_2.png) [@henrilabarre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/henrilabarre)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-running/98383/3 "2017-08-26T10:47:33Z")

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Thanks magnus don't know lovebeat but will have a look !

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-logstash-running/98383/4 "2017-09-23T10:47:46Z")

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