# Logstash wont start correctly with systemctl

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wont-start-correctly-with-systemctl/204952>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wont-start-correctly-with-systemctl/204952 "2019-10-23T20:04:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmoran8888](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jmoran8888/32/56124_2.png) [@jmoran8888](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jmoran8888)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wont-start-correctly-with-systemctl/204952/1 "2019-10-23T20:04:48Z")

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I have logstash 7.4 installed - when i run it from the command line via this  
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash

it works fine - i see the log file and its showing up in the Kibana Monitoring dashboard

when i run it sudo systemctl start logstash its shows that its running without errors but there is not log file and i dont see it in my kibana dashboard under monitoring

i just have a basic logstash.yml right now - no pipelines or anything

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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:** [November 20, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-wont-start-correctly-with-systemctl/204952/2 "2019-11-20T20:04:52Z")

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