# Logstash stops running after running for few seconds **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [August 3, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765 "2017-08-03T18:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/1 "2017-08-03T18:48:31Z")
Hi, My logstash stops running after 4 seconds of starting it, i get this output for systemctl status logstash -l logstash.service - logstash Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/logstash.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-08-03 18:46:53 UTC; 302ms ago Main PID: 7521 (java) CGroup: /system.slice/logstash.service ââ7521 /usr/bin/java -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xmx4g -Xms1g -Xss2048k -Djffi.boot.library.path=/usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/jni -Xbootclasspath/a:/usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib/jruby.jar -classpath : -Djruby.home=/usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby -Djruby.lib=/usr/share/logstash/vendor/jruby/lib -Djruby.script=jruby -Djruby.shell=/bin/sh org.jruby.Main /usr/share/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb logstash/runner.rb --path.settings /etc/logstash Aug 03 18:46:53 [ip-10-x-x-250.domain.com](http://ip-10-x-x-250.domain.com) systemd[1]: Started logstash. Aug 03 18:46:53 [ip-10-x-x-250.domain.com](http://ip-10-x-x-250.domain.com) systemd[1]: Starting logstash... There is no log file created in /var/log/logstash. Any help is highly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/2 "2017-08-04T02:30:01Z")
Although when i do a test against the config file, it pases the test and also when i start logstash using the command bin/logstash -f /path/to/config/file , it gives the desired output, but it doesnt work when i try to start it as systemctl start logstash ---
**Author:** ![Vishal\_Sharma1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vishal_sharma1/32/20207_2.png) [@Vishal\_Sharma1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Sharma1)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/3 "2017-08-04T05:34:22Z")
hope when you are running it as user you are using 'sudo' ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/4 "2017-08-04T13:46:22Z")
I am a root on the server. ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/5 "2017-08-04T13:57:32Z")
Can anybody help me in resolving this issue? It has been down for sometime now. ---
**Author:** ![Vishal\_Sharma1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vishal_sharma1/32/20207_2.png) [@Vishal\_Sharma1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Sharma1)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/6 "2017-08-06T03:58:27Z")
when you start it as service logstash start did you check if its running or not ? start the logstash and show me the output of $ ps aux | grep logstash ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/7 "2017-08-06T20:16:37Z")
everytime i run this command, i can see a new PID which means that it is trying to restart logstash every few seconds and is failing, finally after few unsuccessful attempts it fails forever and never restarts untill i run the start command again. ---
**Author:** ![Vishal\_Sharma1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vishal_sharma1/32/20207_2.png) [@Vishal\_Sharma1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Sharma1)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 12:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/8 "2017-08-07T12:29:43Z")
did you check logstash logs in /var/log/logstash? ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/9 "2017-08-07T14:21:44Z")
> [@Vishal\_Sharma1](#): > > /var/log/logstash Nothing logged to related to the startup failure, but here is the log i see 🙂 [2017-08-04T15:22:13,694][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Starting pipeline {"id"=\>"main", "pipeline.workers"=\>2, "pipeline.batch.size"=\>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=\>5, "pipeline.max\_inflight"=\>250} [2017-08-04T15:38:42,520][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Pipeline main started [2017-08-04T15:38:42,531][WARN][logstash.runner] SIGHUP received. [2017-08-04T15:38:42,545][WARN][logstash.runner] SIGTERM received. Shutting down the agent. [2017-08-04T15:38:42,558][ERROR][logstash.inputs.metrics] Failed to create monitoring event {:message=\>"For path: http\_address", :error=\>"LogStash::Instrument::MetricStore::MetricNotFound"} [2017-08-04T15:38:42,589][INFO][logstash.agent] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=\>9600} [2017-08-04T15:38:43,565][WARN][logstash.agent] stopping pipeline {:id=\>".monitoring-logstash"} [2017-08-04T15:38:45,517][WARN][logstash.agent] stopping pipeline {:id=\>"main"} ---
**Author:** ![Vishal\_Sharma1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vishal_sharma1/32/20207_2.png) [@Vishal\_Sharma1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Sharma1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/10 "2017-08-08T14:41:04Z")
run it using strace and save the output to a file and share it with us. ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/11 "2017-08-08T14:41:40Z")
whats the command to run it using strace? ---
**Author:** ![Vishal\_Sharma1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vishal_sharma1/32/20207_2.png) [@Vishal\_Sharma1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Sharma1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/12 "2017-08-08T14:52:07Z")
before that did you try to run it manually from /usr/share/logstash ? $ cd /usr/share/logstash $ bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash.d/conf/yourfile.conf and see if it runs properly ---
**Author:** ![shroh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/13 "2017-08-08T16:26:56Z")
Yes i ran it manually using this command, and i am still running it using just one config file. It works like a champ. But not with systemctl start logstash ---
**Author:** ![Vishal\_Sharma1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vishal_sharma1/32/20207_2.png) [@Vishal\_Sharma1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vishal_Sharma1)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/14 "2017-08-09T11:06:16Z")
ok so start it as service again and show me the output of $systemctl status logstash ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 11:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-stops-running-after-running-for-few-seconds/95765/15 "2017-09-06T11:06:29Z")
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