# Logstash just started crashing with no changes to any config files

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-just-started-crashing-with-no-changes-to-any-config-files/123967
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 14, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-just-started-crashing-with-no-changes-to-any-config-files/123967 "2018-03-14T17:48:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![lolcatlolcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a183cd/32.png) [@lolcatlolcat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lolcatlolcat)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-just-started-crashing-with-no-changes-to-any-config-files/123967/1 "2018-03-14T17:48:20Z")

</div>

All of a sudden this morning started getting this error messages in the Logstash logs. Nothing has changed in any of the configs so no idea what's going on..... Any suggestions?

[2018-03-14T13:44:39,467][INFO][logstash.inputs.udp] UDP listener started {:address=\>"0.0.0.0:5514", :receive\_buffer\_bytes=\>"106496", :queue\_size=\>"2000"}  
[2018-03-14T13:44:39,770][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=\>#\<NoMethodError: undefined method `<' for nil:NilClass>, :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.0.3-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/common.rb:213:in`get\_event\_type'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.0.3-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/common.rb:165:in `event_action_params'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.0.3-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/common.rb:39:in`event\_action\_tuple'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.0.3-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/common.rb:34:in `block in multi_receive'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:2486:in`map'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.3.0/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-9.0.3-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/common.rb:34:in `multi_receive'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/output_delegator_strategies/shared.rb:13:in`multi\_receive'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/output\_delegator.rb:49:in `multi_receive'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:479:in`block in output\_batch'", "org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1343:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:478:in`output\_batch'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:430:in `worker_loop'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:385:in`block in start\_workers'"]}  
[2018-03-14T13:44:39,841][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (SystemExit) exit  
[2018-03-14T13:44:39,842][WARN][logstash.inputs.udp] UDP listener died {:exception=\>java.nio.channels.ClosedSelectorException, :backtrace=\>["sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.keys(SelectorImpl.java:68)", "org.jruby.util.io.SelectorPool.put(SelectorPool.java:88)", "org.jruby.util.io.SelectExecutor.selectEnd(SelectExecutor.java:59)", "org.jruby.util.io.SelectExecutor.go(SelectExecutor.java:44)", "org.jruby.RubyIO.select(RubyIO.java:3405)", "org.jruby.RubyIO$INVOKER$s$0$3$select.call(RubyIO$INVOKER$s$0$3$select.gen)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.JavaMethod$JavaMethodN.call(JavaMethod.java:743)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.cacheAndCall(CachingCallSite.java:298)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.callBlock(CachingCallSite.java:79)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:83)", "org.jruby.ir.instructions.CallBase.interpret(CallBase.java:428)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.InterpreterEngine.processCall(InterpreterEngine.java:355)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.StartupInterpreterEngine.interpret(StartupInterpreterEngine.java:73)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.InterpreterEngine.interpret(InterpreterEngine.java:83)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.INTERPRET\_METHOD(MixedModeIRMethod.java:179)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.call(MixedModeIRMethod.java:165)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.DynamicMethod.call(DynamicMethod.java:200)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.cacheAndCall(CachingCallSite.java:338)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:163)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.InterpreterEngine.processCall(InterpreterEngine.java:314)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.StartupInterpreterEngine.interpret(StartupInterpreterEngine.java:73)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.InterpreterEngine.interpret(InterpreterEngine.java:83)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.INTERPRET\_METHOD(MixedModeIRMethod.java:179)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.call(MixedModeIRMethod.java:165)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.DynamicMethod.call(DynamicMethod.java:200)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.cacheAndCall(CachingCallSite.java:338)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:163)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.InterpreterEngine.processCall(InterpreterEngine.java:314)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.StartupInterpreterEngine.interpret(StartupInterpreterEngine.java:73)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.InterpreterEngine.interpret(InterpreterEngine.java:83)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.INTERPRET\_METHOD(MixedModeIRMethod.java:179)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.call(MixedModeIRMethod.java:165)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.DynamicMethod.call(DynamicMethod.java:200)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.cacheAndCall(CachingCallSite.java:338)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:163)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.InterpreterEngine.processCall(InterpreterEngine.java:314)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.StartupInterpreterEngine.interpret(StartupInterpreterEngine.java:73)", "org.jruby.ir.interpreter.Interpreter.INTERPRET\_BLOCK(Interpreter.java:132)", "org.jruby.runtime.MixedModeIRBlockBody.commonYieldPath(MixedModeIRBlockBody.java:148)", "org.jruby.runtime.IRBlockBody.call(IRBlockBody.java:73)", "org.jruby.runtime.Block.call(Block.java:124)", "org.jruby.RubyProc.call(RubyProc.java:289)", "org.jruby.RubyProc.call(RubyProc.java:246)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.RubyRunnable.run(RubyRunnable.java:104)", "java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)"]}

---

<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: [April 11, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-just-started-crashing-with-no-changes-to-any-config-files/123967/2 "2018-04-11T17:48:25Z")

</div>

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