Help please: logstash start error

Elastic Stack Logstash
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logstash showing this error
Using bundled JDK: /usr/share/logstash/jdk
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release.
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 /usr/share/logstash/config/log4j2.properties. Using default config which logs errors to the console
[INFO ] 2021-03-18 16:05:06.091 [main] runner - Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"7.11.2", "jruby.version"=>"jruby 9.2.13.0 (2.5.7) 2020-08-03 9a89c94bcc OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.8+10 on 11.0.8+10 +indy +jit [linux-x86_64]"}
[WARN ] 2021-03-18 16:05:06.322 [LogStash::Runner] multilocal - Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[ERROR] 2021-03-18 16:05:07.066 [Converge PipelineAction::Create] agent - Failed to execute action {:action=>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline_id:main, :exception=>"LogStash::ConfigurationError", :message=>"Expected one of [ \t\r\n], "#", [A-Za-z0-9_-], '"', "'", [A-Za-z_], "-", [0-9], "[", "{", "]" at line 17, column 15 (byte 453) after output {\n stdout { codec => "json" }\n elasticsearch {\n hosts => [", :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/compiler.rb:32:in compile_imperative'", "org/logstash/execution/AbstractPipelineExt.java:184:in initialize'", "org/logstash/execution/JavaBasePipelineExt.java:69:in initialize'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/java_pipeline.rb:47:in initialize'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline_action/create.rb:52:in execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:371:in block in converge_state'"]}

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What does the configuration of the output section look like?

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Its probably there is something wrong with your pipeline, probably the output config file. There can be a missing "{" or "}"

thats not good either;
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 /usr/share/logstash/config/log4j2.properties. Using default config which logs errors to the console

You may need to start logstash with --path *.yml

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