# Logstash service does not start: logstash: unrecognized service

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-service-does-not-start-logstash-unrecognized-service/72827>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 25, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-service-does-not-start-logstash-unrecognized-service/72827 "2017-01-25T22:05:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Soham\_Navadiya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Soham\_Navadiya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Soham_Navadiya)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-service-does-not-start-logstash-unrecognized-service/72827/1 "2017-01-25T22:05:50Z")

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I installed successfully logstash. but when I am trying to fire below command:

**sudo service logstash start**

I am getting: \> **logstash: unrecognized service**

During installation my last output was like below.

```
Using provided startup.options file: /etc/logstash/startup.options
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Operation not permitted
Successfully created system startup script for Logstash

```

I restarted also after instllation.

How can I know that logstash service is running or not?  
How can I use `sudo service logstash status`

Thanks in Advance.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-service-does-not-start-logstash-unrecognized-service/72827/2 "2017-01-29T18:49:12Z")

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Which version of Logstash? Which Linux distribution (and version)?

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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:** [February 26, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-service-does-not-start-logstash-unrecognized-service/72827/3 "2017-02-26T18:49:17Z")

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