# I have an erroe while using logstash to config with elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-an-erroe-while-using-logstash-to-config-with-elasticsearch/146074>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 26, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-an-erroe-while-using-logstash-to-config-with-elasticsearch/146074 "2018-08-26T18:33:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![anwarshahtarn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anwarshahtarn/32/34821_2.png) [@anwarshahtarn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anwarshahtarn)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-an-erroe-while-using-logstash-to-config-with-elasticsearch/146074/1 "2018-08-26T18:33:44Z")

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```
C:\Program Files\Elastic\Elasticsearch\logstash-6.4.0\logstash-6.4.0\bin>logstas

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h.bat agent -f ..\conf  
ERROR: Unknown command 'agent'

See: 'bin/logstash --help'  
[ERROR] 2018-08-26 18:29:55.009 [main] Logstash - java.lang.IllegalStateExceptio  
n: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit  
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-an-erroe-while-using-logstash-to-config-with-elasticsearch/146074/2 "2018-08-27T04:50:19Z")

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I think the error message is quite clear: `agent` is not a valid command line parameter. Just removing that will probably solve the problem.

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**Author:** ![anwarshahtarn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anwarshahtarn/32/34821_2.png) [@anwarshahtarn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anwarshahtarn)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-an-erroe-while-using-logstash-to-config-with-elasticsearch/146074/3 "2018-08-27T19:12:35Z")

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Thanks for your feedback, I am ok now with this error.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-an-erroe-while-using-logstash-to-config-with-elasticsearch/146074/4 "2018-09-24T19:12:40Z")

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