Log files not forwarded to Elasticsearch

[renevdm (Rene)]

Seems to be the same issue as this:

Fresh logstash 5.2 install gives log4j warnings and no logging from plugins

I just downloaded the new logstash version (5.2.1), and after starting it I noticed a warning message saying that log4j needs to be initialized properly. I also noticed that plugins like kafka, beats, etc, were not emitting any output log... I used this very simple command to reproduce the problem on a Windows machine: $ bin\logstash -e "input{beats{port=>5044}} output{stdout{}}" Could not find log4j2 configuration at path /Downloads/logstash-5.2.1/config/log4j2.properties. Using default con…