# Multiple Logstash Instance in one machine

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-logstash-instance-in-one-machine/96717>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 11, 2017, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-logstash-instance-in-one-machine/96717 "2017-08-11T07:34:49Z")\
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Did you make any other changes to the `logstash.yml` file in `/etc/logstash2`?

Particularly, did you give your second logstash a different `node.name`? And `path.config`?

```auto
$ grep -v ^# logstash.yml | grep [a-z]
node.name: logstash_output
path.data: /var/lib/logstash/output
path.config: /etc/logstash/output/conf.d
config.reload.automatic: true
path.logs: /var/log/logstash/output

```

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