# Logstash not starting up - keeps on restarting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-up-keeps-on-restarting/230650>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 1, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-up-keeps-on-restarting/230650 "2020-05-01T00:57:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![snehid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@snehid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/snehid)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-up-keeps-on-restarting/230650/1 "2020-05-01T00:57:20Z")

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Not able to get the logstash up and running

`[2020-05-01T10:51:44,146][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit [2020-05-01T10:52:08,417][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=>#<ArgumentError: could not coerce True into a boolean>, :backtrace=>["/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:331:in `coerce'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:306:in `set'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:102:in `set\_value'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:121:in `block in merge'", "org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1428:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:121:in `merge'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/settings.rb:179:in `validate\_all'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:284:in `execute'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:67:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:242:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/clamp-0.6.5/lib/clamp/command.rb:132:in `run'", "/usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb:73:in `<main>'"]}`

any clue?

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-up-keeps-on-restarting/230650/2 "2020-05-01T13:22:06Z")

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> [@snehid](#):
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> error=\>#\<ArgumentError: could not coerce True into a boolean

I suspect you have something in logstash.yml set to True, when it should be true.

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**Author:** ![snehid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@snehid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/snehid)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-up-keeps-on-restarting/230650/3 "2020-05-03T23:30:10Z")

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Thank you badger

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-up-keeps-on-restarting/230650/4 "2020-05-31T23:30:20Z")

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