How to send an application (systemd service) logs to Logstash?

My application / service name 'appdb', running as systemd service. I can observe logs from this application using shall command 'journalctl -u appdb.service'. I want to send these logs to Logstash. I am using the following software (versions).
Elasticsearch 6.3.0 (IP: 10.111.151.149)
journalbeat-7.5.0-1.x86_64 to send logs from application host (IP: 10.111.151.118) to Logstash-6.3.0 (IP: 10.111.151.66) with logstash-input-journald-2.0.2 installed.
Logstash-6.3.0 is able to reach Elasticsearch-6.3.0 (10.111.151.149:9200)
journalbeat-7.5.0-1.x86_64 (from 10.111.151.118) is NOT able to reach Logstash-6.3.0 (10.111.151.66:5044) using following configuration. Please help.

$ cat /etc/journalbeat/journalbeat.yml
journalbeat.inputs:

  • paths:
    include_matches:
    • "systemd.unit=appdb"
      setup.template.settings:
      index.number_of_shards: 1
      #index.codec: best_compression
      #_source.enabled: false
      fields:
      env: staging
      output.logstash:
      hosts: ["10.111.151.66:5044"]
      logging.level: debug
      logging.selectors: ["*"]
      $

$ cat logstash.conf
input {
journald {
lowercase => true
seekto => "head"
thisboot => true
type => "systemd"
tags => ["influxdb"]
}
}

output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["http://10.111.151.149:9200"]
manage_template => false
}
}
$ systemctl status logstash630
● logstash630.service - Logstash v6.3.0 Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/logstash630.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2019-12-10 16:56:20 UTC; 53s ago
Main PID: 3070 (java)
Tasks: 21
Memory: 651.8M
CGroup: /system.slice/logstash630.service
└─3070 /bin/java -Xms1g -Xmx1g -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOc...

Dec 10 16:56:20 PreProd_Logstash systemd[1]: Started (PreProd) Logstash v6.3.0 Service.
$ tail -f logstash-plain.log
[2019-12-10T16:57:19,448][ERROR][logstash.pipeline ] Pipeline aborted due to error {:pipeline_id=>"main", :exception=>#<Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory>, :backtrace=>["/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/systemd-journal-1.2.3/lib/systemd/journal.rb:52:in initialize'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-input-journald-2.0.2/lib/logstash/inputs/journald.rb:67:in register'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:340:in register_plugin'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:351:in block in register_plugins'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in each'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:351:in register_plugins'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:498:in start_inputs'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:392:in start_workers'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:288:in run'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:248:in block in start'"], :thread=>"#<Thread:0x6fa01436 run>"}
[2019-12-10T16:57:19,528][ERROR][logstash.agent ] Failed to execute action {:id=>:main, :action_type=>LogStash::ConvergeResult::FailedAction, :message=>"Could not execute action: PipelineAction::Create, action_result: false", :backtrace=>nil}
[2019-12-10T16:57:20,239][INFO ][logstash.agent ] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}
[2019-12-10T16:58:13,943][WARN ][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[2019-12-10T16:58:16,310][INFO ][logstash.runner ] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"6.3.0"}
[2019-12-10T16:58:25,224][INFO ][logstash.pipeline ] Starting pipeline {:pipeline_id=>"main", "pipeline.workers"=>4, "pipeline.batch.size"=>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>50}
[2019-12-10T16:58:25,617][ERROR][logstash.pipeline ] Error registering plugin {:pipeline_id=>"main", :plugin=>"<LogStash::Inputs::Journald lowercase=>true, seekto=>"head", thisboot=>true, type=>"systemd", tags=>["influxdb"], id=>"b3fff89f140a734538e00984c983e881203be97ee59faa0013b15bb25530c48c", enable_metric=>true, codec=><LogStash::Codecs::Plain id=>"plain_00a87d0d-2a19-4571-a19b-cf87cd3d4ac0", enable_metric=>true, charset=>"UTF-8">, threads=>1, flags=>0, path=>"/var/log/journal", sincedb_write_interval=>15, wait_timeout=>3000000>", :error=>"No such file or directory", :thread=>"#<Thread:0x63a50cd3 run>"}
[2019-12-10T16:58:25,818][ERROR][logstash.pipeline ] Pipeline aborted due to error {:pipeline_id=>"main", :exception=>#<Systemd::JournalError: No such file or directory>, :backtrace=>["/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/systemd-journal-1.2.3/lib/systemd/journal.rb:52:in initialize'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-input-journald-2.0.2/lib/logstash/inputs/journald.rb:67:in register'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:340:in register_plugin'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:351:in block in register_plugins'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1734:in each'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:351:in register_plugins'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:498:in start_inputs'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:392:in start_workers'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:288:in run'", "/home/centos/logstash-6.3.0/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:248:in block in start'"], :thread=>"#<Thread:0x63a50cd3 run>"}
[2019-12-10T16:58:25,905][ERROR][logstash.agent ] Failed to execute action {:id=>:main, :action_type=>LogStash::ConvergeResult::FailedAction, :message=>"Could not execute action: PipelineAction::Create, action_result: false", :backtrace=>nil}

^C
$

Kindly do the needful. Thank you.

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