Dial tcp (ip number):5044: getsockopt: connection refused

Elastic Stack Beats
#1

Hi,

I am trying to transfer logs from filebeats to logstash, but I get this error in the filebeats log:

dial tcp (ip number):5044: getsockopt: connection refused

In my LogStash config.d the configuration file is: and the content is:

  input {
  beats {
    port => 5044
  }
}
output {
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => "(ipnumber):9200"
    manage_template => false
    index => "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
    document_type => "%{[@metadata][type]}"
  }
}

My filebeat configuration is:

#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
output.logstash:
  # The Logstash hosts
  hosts: ["(ipnumber):5044"]
  index: filebeat
  # Optional SSL. By default is off.
  # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications
  #ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]

  # Certificate for SSL client authentication
  #ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"

  # Client Certificate Key
  #ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"

As mentioned in here I checked and there is no more configuration files in conf.d
As mentioned in here I did not specify the ip number

Many thanks!

#2

Are you able to telnet to port 5044 on the Logstash machine from the one where Filebeat is running?

#3

Hey Christian, They are actually sitting on the same VM

#4

Does it work if you change the IP to localhost?

#5

No the error is constant also then. I get still:

dial tcp 127.0.0.1:5044: getsockopt: connection refused
#6

When I connect the filebeat straight to the ES there is a connection

#7

Is this possible because I dont have the beats plugin? If so I am using 5.2, and as far as I know version 5.2 does not use plugins, and how can i install this?

#8

Is logstash running? Have you tried telnet localhost 5044?

#9

Hi steffends,

Well I tried to do telnet and it did not turn out good :slight_smile: .
When I try ping it does work, how can this be?

#10

is logstash running?

#11

Hi @steffens,

Thank you for all the help, I succeeded by installing Logstash on a diff. VM.

From some reason when they were running on the same machine they did not work (yes also Logstash was running)

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#12

Which OS have you been using?

#13

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