# Logstash in windows
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-in-windows/66635
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 20, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-in-windows/66635 "2016-11-20T08:02:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@xsallowed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xsallowed)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-in-windows/66635/1 "2016-11-20T08:02:33Z")
Hi Folks
I am a newbie here and all I am trying to do is find a way to see if logstash is able to read my files and is it able to parse it correctly. I took a basic config file from internet and trying to run logstash with it. My log files are bunch of apache2 access and http logs.
My concerns are I am getting following message and it just stops without showing any further help or signs of processing my log files
C:\Lostash\logstash-5.0.1\bin\>logstash.bat -f Base.config --verbose
Using JAVA\_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0\_101 retrieved from C:\ProgramData
\Oracle\java\javapath\java.exe
JAVA\_OPTS was set to [ -Xmx1g -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSP
arallelRemarkEnabled -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 -XX:CMSIniti
atingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutO
fMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath="$LS\_HOME/heapdump.hprof"]. Logstash will trust th
ese options, and not set any defaults that it might usually set
ERROR StatusLogger No log4j2 configuration file found. Using default configurati
on: logging only errors to the console.
Could not find log4j2 configuration at path /Lostash/logstash-5.0.1/config/log4j
2.properties. Using default config which logs to console
11:57:53.141 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.pipeline - Starting pipeli
ne {"id"=\>"main", "pipeline.workers"=\>4, "pipeline.batch.size"=\>125, "pipeline.b
atch.delay"=\>5, "pipeline.max\_inflight"=\>500}
11:57:53.156 [[main]-pipeline-manager] INFO logstash.pipeline - Pipeline main s
tarted
11:57:53.328 [Api Webserver] INFO logstash.agent - Successfully started Logstas
h API endpoint {:port=\>9600}
Any help to fix this issue. I just want to see if logstash is able to read my logs and if yes it should show me how does it parse them on my screen
Config file I am using is 🙂
input {
file {
path =\> "C:\Logs\apache2\*.\*"
start\_position =\> beginning
}
}
output {
stdout { }
}
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-in-windows/66635/2 "2016-11-20T16:36:51Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-in-windows/66635/3 "2016-12-18T16:37:09Z")
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