# Logstash won't initialize (Security Onion)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wont-initialize-security-onion/172737>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 18, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wont-initialize-security-onion/172737 "2019-03-18T09:48:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Svenson10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Svenson10](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Svenson10)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wont-initialize-security-onion/172737/1 "2019-03-18T09:48:32Z")

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Hi there

Logstash on my storage node is in a WARN state, but I dont know why. sudo so-status output is below.

Additional information:  
- installation from Security Onion 16.04.5.6 ISO image  
- Distributed deployment (Master, Storage, Forwarder)

**sudo so-status**  
so-autossh is running:  
21796 /usr/lib/autossh/autossh -M 0 -q -N -o ServerAliveInterval 60 -o ServerAliveCountMax 3 -o ExitOnForwardFailure yes -i /root/.ssh/securityonion -R 172.18.0.1:50000:localhost:9300 -L 172.18.0.1:6379:localhost:6379 nodestorage@idsecop03.uzh.ch  
Status: HIDS

- ossec\_agent (sguil) [OK]  
Status: Elastic stack
- so-elasticsearch [OK]  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10
- so-logstash -- Logstash has started, but is still initializing.[WARN]
- so-curator [OK]

**sudo docker ps**  
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES  
69c3871d520b securityonionsolutions/so-curator "/bin/bash" 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes so-curator  
fe7c48fa4894 securityonionsolutions/so-logstash "/usr/local/bin/dock…" 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 0.0.0.0:5044-\>5044/tcp, 0.0.0.0:6050-6053-\>6050-6053/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9600-\>9600/tcp so-logstash  
10da039605e8 securityonionsolutions/so-elasticsearch "/bin/bash bin/es-do…" 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 127.0.0.1:9200-\>9200/tcp, 127.0.0.1:9300-\>9300/tcp so-elasticsearch

**Elasticsearch log:**  
[2019-03-18T08:34:25,660][WARN][org.elasticsearch.monitor.jvm.JvmGcMonitorService] [gc][550] overhead, spent [579ms] collecting in the last [1.1s]

## **sudo sostat | less** so-curator

(eth1)  
veth8b41720 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ea:10:f2:55:a3:45  
inet6 addr: fe80::e810:f2ff:fe55:a345/64 Scope:Link  
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1  
RX packets:2241 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0  
TX packets:2246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0  
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0  
RX bytes:230866 (230.8 KB) TX bytes:29560886 (29.5 MB)  
:parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 10  
/usr/sbin/sostat: line 488: / : syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/ ")  
/usr/sbin/sostat: line 504: /10**6: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/10**6")

Any idea how to solve this issue?

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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:** [April 15, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wont-initialize-security-onion/172737/2 "2019-04-15T09:48:39Z")

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