# Filebeat is not monitoring logs on centos 7?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-monitoring-logs-on-centos-7/92787
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 12, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-monitoring-logs-on-centos-7/92787 "2017-07-12T09:29:21Z")
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### Author:  [@atharvajava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atharvajava)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-monitoring-logs-on-centos-7/92787/22 "2017-07-28T09:56:16Z")
I already did that as well and posted the result in my last post I ll paste it again here
```
ERROR StatusLogger No log4j2 configuration file found. Using default configuration: logging only errors to the console.
WARNING: Could not find logstash.yml which is typically located in $LS_HOME/config or /etc/logstash. You can specify the path using --path.settings. Continuing using the defaults
Could not find log4j2 configuration at path //etc/logstash/logstash.yml/log4j2.properties. Using default config which logs to console
10:53:41.131 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.pipeline - Starting pipeline {"id"=>"main", "pipeline.workers"=>4, "pipeline.batch.size"=>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>5, "pipeline.max_inflight"=>500}
10:53:41.875 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.inputs.beats - Beats inputs: Starting input listener {:address=>"0.0.0.0:5044"}
10:53:41.974 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.pipeline - Pipeline main started
10:53:42.121 [Api Webserver] INFO logstash.agent - Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}
```
This is what I am getting when running in foreground @steffens
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-monitoring-logs-on-centos-7/92787/23 "2017-07-28T13:57:35Z")
the warning on `logstash.yml` is kind of funny, but should be okish.
I don't see any events in the logstash output. Can you also post the filebeat logs?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-is-not-monitoring-logs-on-centos-7/92787/24 "2017-08-25T13:57:50Z")
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