"No configuration found in the configured sources": Error when working through LogStash tutorial

[Miao]

I downloaded LogStash 6.6.2 today and I am currently going through the tutorial here.

On my Windows 10 machine, I followed the instructions here to install/configure/run Filebeat.

I followed every single step in the tutorial, up to and including executing this instruction:

To verify your configuration, run the following command:
bin/logstash -f first-pipeline.conf --config.test_and_exit

This was the output I saw:

How can I fix the error "No configuration found in the configuration sources"? I assume that it is due to the fact that there are "No config files found in path" (where the path refers to C:\logstash-6.6.2\first-pipeline.conf, whose contents are exactly the same as specified in the tutorial).

What should I do to move on with the tutorial?

[kharvey (Ken Harvey)]

I haven't setup logstash on Windows before so I don't know what all of the paths are.

But you need to find where your pipelines.yml file is located.
Once you find that, you will start logstash with something like:

bin/logstash -f first-pipeline.conf --path.settings=C:\some\folder\

Where C:\some\folder is the folder that has your pipelines.yml

That folder will contain the rest of your configuration files, such as your jvm.options and conf.d stuff.

[Miao]

Hello Ken,

Thanks for your reply. I ran the command as you suggested, but unfortunately still cannot get it to work.

This is what I saw:

WARNING: Could not find logstash.yml which is typically located in $LS_HOME/config or /etc/logstash. You can specify the path using --path.settings. Continuing using the defaults
Could not find log4j2 configuration at path /C:/logstash-6.6.2/config/pipelines.yml/log4j2.properties. Using default config which logs errors to the console
[WARN ] 2019-03-25 10:23:43.515 [LogStash::Runner] multilocal - Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[INFO ] 2019-03-25 10:23:43.525 [LogStash::Runner] runner - Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"6.6.2"}
[INFO ] 2019-03-25 10:23:43.851 [Ruby-0-Thread-1: C:\logstash-6.6.2\lib\bootstrap\environment.rb:6] configpathloader - No config files found in path {:path=>"C:/logstash-6.6.2/bin/first-pipeline.conf"}
[ERROR] 2019-03-25 10:23:43.856 [Ruby-0-Thread-1: C:\logstash-6.6.2\lib\bootstrap\environment.rb:6] sourceloader - No configuration found in the configured sources.
[INFO ] 2019-03-25 10:23:44.041 [Api Webserver] agent - Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}

[kharvey (Ken Harvey)]

What command did you run?
Where is your pipelines.yml located at?