# Logstash could not be started because there is already another instance using the configured data directory **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [November 25, 2019, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-could-not-be-started-because-there-is-already-another-instance-using-the-configured-data-directory/209226 "2019-11-25T06:35:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sasikumarudu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@sasikumarudu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sasikumarudu)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-could-not-be-started-because-there-is-already-another-instance-using-the-configured-data-directory/209226/1 "2019-11-25T06:35:18Z")
Hi Team, I need your help to fix the issue. I used to run Initiate a Job by providing command "/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf -l /var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log &" in one of the server. The job is working fine for 4 + hours. After that, the Job fails and discontinues. The Job get stopped after showing the below errors check Errors and some more errors section. Kindly help me. **Errors :** [WARN] 2019-11-24 12:44:59.090 [LogStash::Runner] multilocal - Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified [FATAL] 2019-11-24 12:44:59.191 [LogStash::Runner] runner - Logstash could not be started because there is already another instance using the configured data directory. If you wish to run multiple instances, you must change the "path.data" setting. [ERROR] 2019-11-24 12:44:59.204 [LogStash::Runner] Logstash - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit **Some more errors:** Nov 25 04:53:35 ip-10-0-xx-xxx logstash: [2019-09-06T04:53:35,007][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ( {"type"=\>"cluster\_block\_exception", "reason"=\>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/8/index write (api)];"} ) Nov 25 04:53:35 ip-10-0-xx-xxx logstash: [2019-09-06T04:53:35,007][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual bulk actions that failed or were rejected by the previous bulk request. {:count=\>125} Nov 25 04:55:43 ip-10-0-xx-xxx logstash: [2019-09-06T04:55:43,040][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ( {"type"=\>"cluster\_block\_exception", "reason"=\>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/8/index write (api)];"} logstash 15439 1 5 05:06 ? 00:17:17 /bin/java -Xms1g -Xmx1g -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djruby.compile.invokedynamic=true -Djruby.jit.threshold=0 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom -cp /usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/animal-sniffer-annotations-1.14.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/commons-codec-1.11.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/commons-compiler-3.0.8.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/error\_prone\_annotations-2.0.18.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/google-java-format-1.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/gradle-license-report-22.0.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/j2objc-annotations-1.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jackson-annotations-2.9.5.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jackson-core-2.9.5.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstas -core/lib/jars/jackson-databind-2.9.5.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jackson-dataformat-cbor-2.9.5.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/janino-3.0.8.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jruby-complete-9.1.13.0.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jsr305-1.3.9.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/log4j-api-2.9.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/log4j-core-2.9.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.9.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/logstash-core.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.commands-3.6.0.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.contenttype-3.4.100.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.expressions-3.4.300.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.filesystem-1.3.100.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.jobs-3.5.100.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.resources-3.7.100.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.runtime-3.7.0.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.equinox.app-1.3.100.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.equinox.common-3.6.0.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.equinox.preferences-3.4.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.equinox.registry-3.5.101.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.jdt.core-3.10.0.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.osgi-3.7.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.text-3.5.101.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar org.logstash.Logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash root 15513 1 0 05:07 ? 00:02:19 /bin/java -Xms1g -Xmx1g -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djruby.compile.invokedynamic=true -Djruby.jit.threshold=0 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom -cp /usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/animal-sniffer-annotations-1.14.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/commons-codec-1.11.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/commons-compiler-3.0.8.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/error\_prone\_annotations-2.0.18.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/google-java-format-1.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/gradle-license-report-0.7.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/guava-22.0.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/j2objc-annotations-1.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jackson-annotations-2.9.5.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jackson-core-2.9.5.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstas -core/lib/jars/jackson-databind-2.9.5.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jackson-dataformat-cbor-2.9.5.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/janino-3.0.8.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jruby-complete-9.1.13.0.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/jsr305-1.3.9.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/log4j-api-2.9.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/log4j-core-2.9.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.9.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/logstash-core.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.commands-3.6.0.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.contenttype-3.4.100.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.expressions-3.4.300.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.filesystem-1.3.100.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.jobs-3.5.100.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.core.resources-3.7.1.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/org.eclipse.text-3.5.101.jar:/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/jars/slf4j-api-1.7.25.jar org.logstash.Logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf -l /var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_Yuliansen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/charles_yuliansen/32/45664_2.png) [@Charles\_Yuliansen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Charles_Yuliansen)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-could-not-be-started-because-there-is-already-another-instance-using-the-configured-data-directory/209226/2 "2019-12-19T08:18:35Z")
have you fixed this? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-could-not-be-started-because-there-is-already-another-instance-using-the-configured-data-directory/209226/3 "2020-01-16T08:18:36Z")
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