How to run logstash config file on Amazon ec2 instance

[alfastep]

I have used systemctl start logstash to get logstash up and running. I was wondering how I can run a logstash config file to ingest data into elastisearch on the ec2 instance?

[abhivj7b (Abhishek)]

You can configure static IP at EC2 instance and then you can use the same at .yml file of beats and logstash.

[alfastep]

When I run:
systemctl start logstash

and then I run:
systemctl status logstash

I get the following message:
logstash.service - logstash
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/logstash.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Mon 2018-02-26 19:29:10 UTC; 1s ago
Process: 2016 ExecStart=/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 2016 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Any help or idea of why this could be happening?

[abhivj7b (Abhishek)]

Please try this

$logstashhome/config/startup.options file? Please set LC_USER and LC_GROUP to existed account and group .

user and group id to be invoked as

LS_USER=elk-test
LS_GROUP=elk-test