# Journalbeat no connection event

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-no-connection-event/259633
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** journalbeat
**Created:** [December 25, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-no-connection-event/259633 "2020-12-25T12:46:16Z")
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### Author: ![Catherine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/catherine/32/81402_2.png) [@Catherine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Catherine)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-no-connection-event/259633/1 "2020-12-25T12:46:17Z")

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Hello

I have a problem with no attempt to connect from journalbeat to logstash, even no errors (nothing at all).  
How to troubleshoot this problem?

2020-12-25T12:38:28.195Z INFO instance/beat.go:299 Setup Beat: journalbeat; Version: 7.10.0  
2020-12-25T12:38:28.195Z DEBUG [beat] instance/beat.go:325 Initializing output plugins  
2020-12-25T12:38:28.199Z DEBUG [publisher] pipeline/consumer.go:148 start pipeline event consumer  
2020-12-25T12:38:28.199Z INFO [publisher] pipeline/module.go:113 Beat name: api-1  
2020-12-25T12:38:28.199Z WARN [cfgwarn] beater/journalbeat.go:55 EXPERIMENTAL: Journalbeat is experimental.  
2020-12-25T12:38:28.309Z DEBUG [input] reader/journal.go:75 New journal is opened for reading {"path": "/var/log/journal"}  
2020-12-25T12:38:28.312Z DEBUG [input] input/input.go:112 New input is created for paths [/var/log/journal]  
2020-12-25T12:38:28.313Z INFO instance/beat.go:455 journalbeat start running.  
2020-12-25T12:38:28.313Z INFO [journalbeat] beater/journalbeat.go:93 journalbeat is running! Hit CTRL-C to stop it.  
2020-12-25T12:38:28.320Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:118 Starting metrics logging every 30s  
2020-12-25T12:38:58.332Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:145 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s

It's OK with an internet connection and routing.

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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: [January 22, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-no-connection-event/259633/2 "2021-01-22T14:46:19Z")

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