# Logstash not working as a service **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [March 14, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-working-as-a-service/299600 "2022-03-14T10:41:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ashiqab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ashiqab/32/103144_2.png) [@ashiqab](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashiqab)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-working-as-a-service/299600/1 "2022-03-14T10:41:36Z")
Hello, I am new to ELK and am trying to set up monitoring on few of our application jobs using ELK stack. I could run the below query successfully and the data is reflecting on Kibana: logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/accessinfologs.conf However when i try to set up logstash service, it fails with the below error: _Mar 14 11:38:55 vlcdbdd2 logstash[28237]: [2022-03-14T11:38:55,407][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=\>java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /usr/share/logstash/data/.lock, :backtrace=\>["sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(sun/nio/fs/UnixException.java:90)", "sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(sun/nio/fs/UnixException.java:111)", "sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(sun/nio/fs/UnixException.java:116)", "sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newFileChannel(sun/nio/fs/UnixFileSystemProvider.java:182)", "java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(java/nio/channels/FileChannel.java:292)", "java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(java/nio/channels/FileChannel.java:345)", "org.logstash.FileLockFactory.obtainLock(org/logstash/FileLockFactory.java:89)", "jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)", "jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(jdk/internal/reflect/NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)", "jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(jdk/internal/reflect/DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)", "java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(java/lang/reflect/Method.java:566)", "org.jruby.javasupport.JavaMethod.invokeDirectWithExceptionHandling(org/jruby/javasupport/JavaMethod.java:471)", "org.jruby.javasupport.JavaMethod.invokeStaticDirect(org/jruby/javasupport/JavaMethod.java:373)", "RUBY.execute(/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:396)", "usr.share.logstash.vendor.bundle.jruby.$2\_dot\_5\_dot\_0.gems.clamp\_minus\_1\_dot\_0\_dot\_1.lib.clamp.command.run(/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/clamp-1.0.1/lib/clamp/command.rb:68)", "usr.share.logstash.logstash\_minus\_core.lib.logstash.runner.run(/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/runner.rb:282)", "usr.share.logstash.vendor.bundle.jruby.$2\_dot\_5\_dot\_0.gems.clamp\_minus\_1\_dot\_0\_dot\_1.lib.clamp.command.run(/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/clamp-1.0.1/lib/clamp/command.rb:133)", "usr.share.logstash.lib.bootstrap.environment.(/usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environm_ _Mar 14 11:38:55 vlcdbdd2 logstash[28237]: ent.rb:93)", "java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle.invokeWithArguments(java/lang/invoke/MethodHandle.java:710)", "org.jruby.Ruby.runScript(org/jruby/Ruby.java:1205)", "org.jruby.Ruby.runNormally(org/jruby/Ruby.java:1128)", "org.jruby.Ruby.runNormally(org/jruby/Ruby.java:1146)", "org.jruby.Ruby.runFromMain(org/jruby/Ruby.java:958)", "org.logstash.Logstash.run(org/logstash/Logstash.java:163)", "org.logstash.Logstash.main(org/logstash/Logstash.java:73)"]}_ _Mar 14 11:38:55 vlcdbdd2 logstash[28237]: [2022-03-14T11:38:55,421][FATAL][org.logstash.Logstash] Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit_ Here is my logstash.yml file: _pipeline.batch.size: 125_ - pipeline.batch.delay: 5\* - node.name: dlmlogstash\* _path.data: /var/lib/logstash_ - pipeline.id: main\* - pipeline.workers: 2\* _path.config:/etc/logstash/conf.d/_ _log.level: info_ _path.logs: /var/log/logstash_ _xpack.monitoring.enabled: true_ _xpack.monitoring.Elasticsearch.username: elastic_ _xpack.monitoring.Elasticsearch.password: passwd_ _xpack.monitoring.Elasticsearch.hosts: ["[http://10.177.36.103:9200](http://10.177.36.103:9200)"]_ Could you please guide me to the right area I should focus on in order to set up logstash service. Thanks and regards, Ashiq Aboo Backer ---
**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:** [March 14, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-working-as-a-service/299600/2 "2022-03-14T16:56:59Z")
> [@ashiqab](#): > > java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /usr/share/logstash/data/.lock logstash is trying to write to that file and is getting an exception. You need to check that the permissions allow the directory and file to be written to by whatever user logstash is running as. ---
**Author:** ![ashiqab](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ashiqab/32/103144_2.png) [@ashiqab](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashiqab)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-working-as-a-service/299600/3 "2022-03-15T03:19:26Z")
> [@ashiqab](#): > > usr Thank you so much! I think my chown skipped this hidden file. It works fine now! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-working-as-a-service/299600/4 "2022-04-12T03:20:11Z")
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