Elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'

My Elasticsearch is not starting, I don't know why I am getting below error.

root@i3insight2:~# systemctl status elasticsearch.service
â elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-09-01 19:27:39 PKT; 14h ago
     Docs: http://www.elastic.co
  Process: 26386 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 26386 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 elasticsearch[26386]:         at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111)
Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 elasticsearch[26386]:         at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:116)
Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 elasticsearch[26386]:         at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:219)
Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 elasticsearch[26386]:         at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:373)
Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 elasticsearch[26386]:         at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:424)
Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 elasticsearch[26386]:         at java.base/java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:420)
Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 elasticsearch[26386]:         at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:158)
Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 elasticsearch[26386]:         at org.elasticsearch.tools.launchers.JvmOptionsParser.main(JvmOptionsParser.java:61)
Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 01 19:27:39 i3insight2 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I want to do my project in production mode. It is working perfectly underdevelopment of the project after production mode this is not working. I want my project to read data continuously without running manually. But is not working now.

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Dear I edited the post please do help me how to resolve this issue.

You will need to check /var/log/elasticsearch for the full log of what is happening there.

This is my log file.

root@i3insight2:/var/log/elasticsearch# tail -f elasticsearch.log
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:115) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:92) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: can not run elasticsearch as root
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.initializeNatives(Bootstrap.java:105) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:172) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:349) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:159) ~[elasticsearch-7.2.0.jar:7.2.0]

That'd be why.
How did you install Elasticsearch?

This is installed on the server so I don't know about this much, I am just using it last 2 months, It is working fine but since yesterday It is not working. May be a permissions issue from the admin side.

That's not likely, the service file that is included in DEB/RPM installs ensures that Elasticsearch runs as the correct user.

This sounds like it is a custom install.

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