# Elasticsearch 7.3.2 shows status as failed - main ERROR Unable to locate appender "rolling\_old" for logger config "root"

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**Created:** [June 19, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-3-2-shows-status-as-failed-main-error-unable-to-locate-appender-rolling-old-for-logger-config-root/237886 "2020-06-19T23:00:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![sayef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@sayef](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sayef)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-3-2-shows-status-as-failed-main-error-unable-to-locate-appender-rolling-old-for-logger-config-root/237886/1 "2020-06-19T23:00:27Z")

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I am new to Elasticsearch and getting this error

Getting the following error when I do a sudo systemctl status elasticsearch.service.

● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch  
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)  
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-06-19 22:53:08 UTC; 1min 13s ago  
Docs: [http://www.elastic.co](http://www.elastic.co)  
Process: 2722 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID\_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)  
Main PID: 2722 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 elasticsearch[2722]: 2020-06-19 22:53:08,267 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "rolling\_old" for logger config "root"  
Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 elasticsearch[2722]: 2020-06-19 22:53:08,268 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "index\_indexing\_slowlog\_rolling\_old" for l  
Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 elasticsearch[2722]: 2020-06-19 22:53:08,268 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "index\_indexing\_slowlog\_rolling" for logge  
Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 elasticsearch[2722]: 2020-06-19 22:53:08,269 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "audit\_rolling" for logger config "org.ela  
Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 elasticsearch[2722]: 2020-06-19 22:53:08,269 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "index\_search\_slowlog\_rolling\_old" for log  
Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 elasticsearch[2722]: 2020-06-19 22:53:08,269 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "index\_search\_slowlog\_rolling" for logger  
Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 elasticsearch[2722]: 2020-06-19 22:53:08,270 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "deprecation\_rolling\_old" for logger confi  
Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 elasticsearch[2722]: 2020-06-19 22:53:08,270 main ERROR Unable to locate appender "deprecation\_rolling" for logger config "o  
Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE  
Jun 19 22:53:08 ip-10-240-50-115 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

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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:** [July 17, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-3-2-shows-status-as-failed-main-error-unable-to-locate-appender-rolling-old-for-logger-config-root/237886/2 "2020-07-17T23:00:35Z")

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