# Connection Refused on localhost
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-on-localhost/85624
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-on-localhost/85624 "2017-05-12T21:22:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@dodegaard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dodegaard)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-on-localhost/85624/1 "2017-05-12T21:22:29Z")
I have setup latest bits of Elastic, Logstash, Kibana and Filebeat all on my local machine (OSX 10.12.3) and am getting a "Connection Refused" when filebeat tries to publish them. I have done a successful telnet when logstash is up which puzzles me. I am using the logstash.beat.config plugin to fire up logstash.
To start logstash
`bin/logstash -f logstash-beats.conf`
To start filebeat
`sudo ./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml -d "publish"`
Here is some of my output
2017/05/12 21:13:26.267729 client.go:214: DBG Publish: {
"@timestamp": "2017-05-12T21:13:26.076Z",
"beat": {
"hostname": "dodegaard-MBA.local",
"name": "savm002",
"version": "5.4.0"
},
"input\_type": "log",
"message": "04/05/2017 19:46:03 instance|044444444\tfetch\_time|1.1006\ttotal\_accounts|5\trt\_accounts|0\trt\_account\_status|Current\trt\_time\_acct|\terror\_data|\ttarget\_url|\tuserlogon|",
"offset": 199086,
"source": "/users/dodegaard/documents/siteagentlogs\_sample/0400\_SD40040.log.04-05-2017",
"tags": [
"x002",
"legacy-tier"
],
"type": "log"
}
2017/05/12 21:13:26.267755 output.go:109: DBG output worker: publish 50 events
2017/05/12 21:13:26.284814 single.go:140: ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): Get [http://127.0.0.1:5044](http://127.0.0.1:5044): read tcp 127.0.0.1:58367-\>127.0.0.1:5044: read: connection reset by peer
2017/05/12 21:13:27.299930 single.go:140: ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): Get [http://127.0.0.1:5044](http://127.0.0.1:5044): read tcp 127.0.0.1:58368-\>127.0.0.1:5044: read: connection reset by peer
2017/05/12 21:13:29.306082 single.go:140: ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): Get [http://127.0.0.1:5044](http://127.0.0.1:5044): read tcp 127.0.0.1:58369-\>127.0.0.1:5044: read: connection reset by peer
2017/05/12 21:13:33.310978 single.go:140: ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): Get [http://127.0.0.1:5044](http://127.0.0.1:5044): read tcp 127.0.0.1:58370-\>127.0.0.1:5044: read: connection reset by peer
2017/05/12 21:13:41.316694 single.go:140: ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): Get [http://127.0.0.1:5044](http://127.0.0.1:5044): read tcp 127.0.0.1:58371-\>127.0.0.1:5044: read: connection reset by peer
2017/05/12 21:13:56.032021 metrics.go:39: INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: filebeat.harvester.open\_files=3 filebeat.harvester.running=3 filebeat.harvester.started=3 libbeat.es.publish.read\_errors=5 libbeat.es.publish.write\_bytes=605 libbeat.publisher.published\_events=2045
2017/05/12 21:13:57.320940 single.go:140: ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): Get [http://127.0.0.1:5044](http://127.0.0.1:5044): read tcp 127.0.0.1:58375-\>127.0.0.1:5044: read: connection reset by peer
I am not interested in going directly to elasticsearch but want this to traffic through logstash.
Thank you so much in advance for your help.
d
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### Author:  [@dodegaard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dodegaard)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-on-localhost/85624/2 "2017-05-14T04:16:01Z")
I figured it out. I had uncommented the hosts section but not the output.logstash. Duh. Hope this helps someone take a sharp look at their yml file.
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### Author:  [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-on-localhost/85624/3 "2017-05-15T11:08:57Z")
I'm glad you found the solution, if you mark your last comment as solution it will help others to find it better 🙂
regards
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2017, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connection-refused-on-localhost/85624/4 "2017-06-12T11:11:26Z")
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