Logstash 5 not running

georgezoto · January 10, 2018, 5:28pm

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Logstash installed via rpm and apt packages cannot be manually started with `-e` flag

opened 09:15PM - 01 Nov 16 UTC

closed 01:38AM - 02 Nov 16 UTC

suyograo

bug v5.0.0

Logstash installed via rpm and apt packages cannot be manually started with `-e`… flag. `-e` flag's behavior is to merge config string supplied via command line to config file supplied via `-f`. Now, in packages, `logstash.yml` is implicitly setting `path.config` to `/etc/logstash/conf.d/*`. This means whenever a user does ``` bin/logstash -e 'foo' ``` it is actually merging contents of directory `/etc/logstash.conf.d` For a fresh installation, no config files are found and LS bails with an error. A combination of all these issues causes a lot of confusion for first users and users experienced with pre-5.0 behavior where there was no `logstash.yml` Related: https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/6062 https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-not-running/64449 Also, our documentation for getting started instructs to use `e`, so this is needs to be fixed.