# \\ELK was unexpected at this time

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 5, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541 "2019-11-05T08:08:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![lohit18](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lohit18/32/64131_2.png) [@lohit18](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lohit18)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541/1 "2019-11-05T08:08:14Z")

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I am Getting Error while running application as elasticsearch from command prompt

Error : **\ELK was unexpected at this time.**

Java -verison  
java version "1.8.0\_201"  
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0\_201-b09)  
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.201-b09, mixed mode)

JDK Version " 1.8.0\_171"

system : Windows 10

Kindly help me out

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541/2 "2019-11-05T09:46:09Z")

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Can you share the **full** output and how you tried to start elasticsearch? Also which Elasticsearch version are you using?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![lohit18](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lohit18/32/64131_2.png) [@lohit18](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lohit18)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541/3 "2019-11-05T09:51:44Z")

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Elasticsearch is started now  
but while running kibana localhost it was showing Status :RED  
and logstash showing follow error

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/2/62b9d62ca5e6daa36ba430e2c498185de6b29751.png)

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**Author:** ![lohit18](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lohit18/32/64131_2.png) [@lohit18](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lohit18)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541/4 "2019-11-05T09:53:48Z")

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@spinscale I'm Using 5.2.2 version .

Kindly help me out

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![B.M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/b.m/32/56771_2.png) [@B.M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/B.M)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541/5 "2019-11-05T09:59:47Z")

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Could you share your logstash conf file

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**Author:** ![lohit18](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lohit18/32/64131_2.png) [@lohit18](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lohit18)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541/6 "2019-11-05T10:26:28Z")

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PFB,

input {  
stdin{}  
}  
output{  
elasticsearch{  
hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"]  
index =\> "Samlogstash"  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![lohit18](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lohit18/32/64131_2.png) [@lohit18](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lohit18)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541/7 "2019-11-05T10:37:27Z")

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PFB, Badre

input {  
stdin{}  
}  
output{  
elasticsearch{  
hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"]  
index =\> "Samlogstash"  
}  
}

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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:** [December 3, 2019, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-was-unexpected-at-this-time/206541/8 "2019-12-03T10:37:31Z")

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