# Failed To start elasticsearch with GCE cloud plugin **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 30, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176 "2015-12-30T13:05:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/1 "2015-12-30T13:05:53Z")
i installed cloud gce plugin for elasticsearch 2.0 (sudo bin/plugin install cloud-gce). but it is not started even if just set _gce_ for network.host. No logs were found for this case. i use debian and elastic is started as service. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/2 "2015-12-30T13:06:56Z")
Which exact version are you using? ---
**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/3 "2015-12-30T13:07:45Z")
"version" : { "number" : "2.0.0", "build\_hash" : "de54438d6af8f9340d50c5c786151783ce7d6be5", "build\_timestamp" : "2015-10-22T08:09:48Z", "build\_snapshot" : false, "lucene\_version" : "5.2.1" }, ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/4 "2015-12-30T13:10:13Z")
Can you try 2.0.2? ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/5 "2015-12-30T13:11:00Z")
And when you said that "it is not started", do you mean that elasticsearch stops? ---
**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/6 "2015-12-30T13:14:12Z")
I can try 2.0.2 or even 2.1. when i said "it is not started" i meant that i can't connect to it after restart and also i don't see started event in log ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/7 "2015-12-30T13:15:16Z")
Can you share the full logs please? ---
**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/8 "2015-12-30T13:15:56Z")
there is nothing in log at all and also no java processes ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/9 "2015-12-30T13:16:45Z")
Nothing at all? Even a single line? But how did you get: ```auto "version" : { "number" : "2.0.0", "build_hash" : "de54438d6af8f9340d50c5c786151783ce7d6be5", "build_timestamp" : "2015-10-22T08:09:48Z", "build_snapshot" : false, "lucene_version" : "5.2.1" }, ``` ---
**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/10 "2015-12-30T13:17:18Z")
when i set default value for host (0.0.0.0) it works ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/11 "2015-12-30T13:18:49Z")
Ok. Can you share your `elasticsearch.yml` file then? ---
**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/12 "2015-12-30T13:24:01Z")
```auto cluster.name: my-staging node.name: ${HOSTNAME} path.data: /var/data/elasticsearch/ path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch bootstrap.mlockall: true ES_HEAP_SIZE: 1.5G network.host: "_gce_" ``` ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/13 "2015-12-30T13:53:52Z")
`ES_HEAP_SIZE: 1.5G` is useless here. But that should not cause that issue Are you sure that cloud-gce plugin is started? Can you share the full logs? ---
**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/14 "2015-12-30T21:14:54Z")
i don't see any logs at all ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/15 "2015-12-30T22:14:33Z")
Even when it works? ---
**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/16 "2015-12-30T22:35:44Z")
yes even then ---
**Author:** ![eprst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a6a055/32.png) [@eprst](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eprst)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/17 "2015-12-30T23:56:12Z")
on elastic 2.1: loaded [cloud-gce], sites [head] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No interface named 'gce' found, got [name:lo (lo), name:eth0 (eth0)] at org.elasticsearch.common.network.NetworkUtils.getAddressesForInterface(NetworkUtils.java:188) at org.elasticsearch.common.network.NetworkService.resolveInetAddress(NetworkService.java:196) at org.elasticsearch.common.network.NetworkService.resolveBindHostAddress(NetworkService.java:111) at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport.bindServerBootstrap(NettyTransport.java:430) at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.NettyTransport.doStart(NettyTransport.java:319) at org.elasticsearch.common.component.AbstractLifecycleComponent.start(AbstractLifecycleComponent.java:68) at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService.doStart(TransportService.java:170) at org.elasticsearch.common.component.AbstractLifecycleComponent.start(AbstractLifecycleComponent.java:68) at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.start(Node.java:254) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:221) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:287) at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:35) ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/18 "2015-12-31T04:00:27Z")
So you found logs? I'll check that later today. Might be a bug. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/19 "2015-12-31T09:36:27Z")
I checked it and actually `_gce_` is only available if you are using gce discovery. Which means that you need to have: ```auto cloud.gce.project_id: YOUR_GCE_PROJECT cloud.gce.zone: YOUR_ZONE discovery.type: gce ``` ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176/20 "2015-12-31T09:52:54Z")
I opened [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/15724](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/15724) to check if we can do a better job here. [Next page](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-start-elasticsearch-with-gce-cloud-plugin/38176.md?page=2)