# Logstash 6.4 startup error in Windows ... Please suggest

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-4-startup-error-in-windows-please-suggest/147370>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 5, 2018, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-4-startup-error-in-windows-please-suggest/147370 "2018-09-05T10:28:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![samuraichetan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@samuraichetan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samuraichetan)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-4-startup-error-in-windows-please-suggest/147370/1 "2018-09-05T10:28:49Z")

</div>

HI Team ,  
Couls you suggest how to resolve the error.. THis seems a known error since v6.0 in logstash but could not really get a resolution.  
Env: Win 7 64 bit

Issue :- Logstash startup error in Windows ...SThis is on windows machine and I am using .zip installations .....( Note Kibana and Elasticseach are working fine )

Error  
Please suggest.  
C:\ELK\logstash-6.4.0\bin\>logstash.bat -f apache01.conf  
warning: ignoring JAVA\_OPTS= -Xms1g -Xmx1g -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatin  
gOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UT  
F-8 -Djruby.compile.invokedynamic=true -Djruby.jit.threshold=0 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Djav  
a.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom ; pass JVM parameters via LS\_JAVA\_OPTS

COmmand :- C:\logstash\bin\>logstash.bat -f apache01.conf

C:\Users\IBM\_ADMIN\>echo %JAVA\_HOME%  
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\_181

JVM Options:

java version "1.8.0\_181"  
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0\_181-b13)  
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.181-b13, mixed mode)

C:\Users\IBM\_ADMIN\>echo %PATH%  
C:\tibco\tibrv\8.4\bin;C:\windows\system32;C:\windows;C:\windows\System32\Wbem;C:\windows\System32\WindowsPowerShel  
l\v1.0;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Personal Communications;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Trace Facility;C:\Program F  
iles (x86)\IBM\Mobility Client;C:\Program Files (x86)\WinMerge;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files (  
x86)\Bitvise SSH Client;C:\Program Files\IBM\Bluemix\bin;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phon  
e;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere MQ\bin64;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere MQ\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)  
\IBM\WebSphere MQ\tools\c\samples\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\Program Files\Ja  
va\jdk1.8.0\_181\bin

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-4-startup-error-in-windows-please-suggest/147370/2 "2018-10-03T10:28:55Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.