Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit

The .lock file could still be present.

It seems that you really do not have another logstash running, you can confirm that with the following command:

ps -ef | grep logstash

If there is really not a logstash process running, remove the .lock file from the directory /var/lib/logstash.

Then configure your pipelines.yml file as following:

- pipeline.id: main
  path.config: "/etc/logstash/logstash-its.conf"

After that start logstash using systemctl with systemctl start logstash.

Check the logs for any errors.

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