# Logstash exits after less than a minute?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [May 9, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035 "2017-05-09T08:13:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@BrunoC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BrunoC)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035/1 "2017-05-09T08:13:15Z")
Hi guys,
I'm having a big problem, when I start Logstash's service it exits after a few seconds. (When checking it's statut it says "active (exited)", I managed to have it run for a few hours last week but now it's just not working.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035/2 "2017-05-09T08:16:05Z")
Have you checked the Logstash logs?
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### Author:  [@BrunoC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BrunoC)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2017, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035/3 "2017-05-09T08:17:31Z")
Where are they located?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035/4 "2017-05-09T08:22:04Z")
Typically in /var/log/logstash, but could be elsewhere depending on how Logstash is configured on your machine.
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### Author:  [@BrunoC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BrunoC)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2017, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035/5 "2017-05-09T08:26:13Z")
Found them, way too messy to be able to read them, my logstash is getting logs from pfSense and I just disable pfSense sending logs and now Logstash doesn't exit anymore. Could logstash crash if he gets too many data?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2017, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035/6 "2017-05-09T08:38:55Z")
> Could logstash crash if he gets too many data?
Not likely.
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### Author:  [@BrunoC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BrunoC)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2017, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035/7 "2017-05-09T08:48:48Z")
I would gladly give you the logs from Logstash but it's just a mess.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exits-after-less-than-a-minute/85035/8 "2017-06-06T09:01:13Z")
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