# Exception on logstash when closing filebeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-on-logstash-when-closing-filebeat/227142
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-on-logstash-when-closing-filebeat/227142 "2020-04-08T13:56:52Z")
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### Author:  [@billymerendina](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/billymerendina)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-on-logstash-when-closing-filebeat/227142/1 "2020-04-08T13:56:52Z")
Hi everybody,
I'm working with Elasticsearh, kibana, filebeat and logstash 7.6.2 on windows pc.
Everythings seems to be right.
But I see somethng strange when i kill (ctrl + c) the filebeat process (I don 't use it as service).
When I kill the filebeat process, logstash notifies this exception:
```auto
[2020-04-08T04:50:04,395][INFO][org.logstash.beats.BeatsHandler][main] [local: 0.0.0.0:5044, remote: 10.1.1.1:49628] Handling exception: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
[2020-04-08T04:50:04,395][WARN][io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline][main] An exceptionCaught() event was fired, and it reached at the tail of the pipeline. It usually means the last handler in the pipeline did not handle the exception.
java.io.IOException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
at sun.nio.ch.SocketDispatcher.read0(Native Method) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.ch.SocketDispatcher.read(SocketDispatcher.java:43) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.readIntoNativeBuffer(IOUtil.java:276) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.read(IOUtil.java:233) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.read(IOUtil.java:223) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.read(SocketChannelImpl.java:358) ~[?:?]
at io.netty.buffer.PooledUnsafeDirectByteBuf.setBytes(PooledUnsafeDirectByteBuf.java:288) ~[netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at io.netty.buffer.AbstractByteBuf.writeBytes(AbstractByteBuf.java:1128) ~[netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioSocketChannel.doReadBytes(NioSocketChannel.java:347) ~[netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:148) ~[netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:644) ~[netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:579) ~[netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:496) ~[netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:458) [netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$5.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:897) [netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30) [netty-all-4.1.30.Final.jar:4.1.30.Final]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834) [?:?]
```
Is there a way to close filebeat process gracefully?
I'm my filebeat.yml I have this properties:
```auto
ignore_older: 10m
close_inactive: 5m
```
But it does not resolve my problem.
Thank you in advance,
Regards.
Alessandro
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exception-on-logstash-when-closing-filebeat/227142/2 "2020-05-06T13:56:59Z")
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