# Failed to start elastic search

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elastic-search/278899
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [July 16, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elastic-search/278899 "2021-07-16T12:43:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Jedrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jedrick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jedrick)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elastic-search/278899/1 "2021-07-16T12:43:06Z")

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Hi,

Good day.

Can you help me with my problem with elastic search?

Currently, i am building a Wazuh siem that uses elastic search functions.

As I checked, Filebeat, kibana services are running. But the elasticsearch service is not running.

I already stop and restart the elasticsearch service and reboot the VM.

But still, elastic search is not working.

In addition, i am using ubuntu- .ova in building siem (wazuh)

Error:

Failed to start elasticsearch.  
Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.  
elasticksearch.service failed

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/a/fa3747876b7d0995057709e0fca42f3a58892785.png)

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### Author: ![TheHunter1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thehunter1/32/80190_2.png) [@TheHunter1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TheHunter1)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elastic-search/278899/2 "2021-07-16T13:32:12Z")

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Hello,

I think it's better if you share your elasticsearch file logs that you can find in `/var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log`

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### Author: ![Jedrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jedrick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jedrick)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elastic-search/278899/3 "2021-07-16T15:03:39Z")

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Hi, thank you for that answer.

Can you help me find that path. I have no idea finding that path.

Currently, I'm on the root. And once I used the _ls_ command. It shows me this.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/e/9eb2c7d955c41bf081252cae4ef3eaaec45addc7.png)

Please help 🙂

Im a newbie with elasticsearch.

Thank you in advance

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### Author: ![Jedrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jedrick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jedrick)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elastic-search/278899/4 "2021-07-18T09:24:36Z")

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Hey hunter please see image

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/1/d1854cf74144bd429bd7e0d9e16e4ae76af736a4.png)

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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: [August 15, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elastic-search/278899/5 "2021-08-15T09:24:59Z")

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