No debugging data returning after restarting beat with debugging/logging turned on

Elastic Stack Beats
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I'm using elasticsearch w/ Kibana 4.0 w/ the AWS managed setup. I'm working on figuring out if all my beats are actually reporting so I'm checking as I install topbeat on each new system throughout my environment. I have some instances running in Rackspace, AWS, and Azure, all that have to report to the AWS managed elasticsearch instance. Currently I've got the beats service started on a few machines, and when I go back to restart with debugging I'm running into this situation...

ubuntu@ip-xxx-yy-zz-ddd:/etc/topbeat$ sudo /etc/init.d/topbeat stop
ubuntu@ip-xxx-yy-zz-ddd:/etc/topbeat$ sudo /etc/init.d/topbeat start  -c ./topbeat.yml -e -v -d "*"
ubuntu@ip-xxx-yy-zz-ddd:/etc/topbeat$

I stop topbeat with "sudo /etc/init.d/topbeat stop" and then start it up again with "sudo /etc/init.d/topbeat start -c ./topbeat.yml -e -v -d "*"" but then I get nothing after that. If I just issue a "sudo /etc/init.d/topbeat start" I get "/usr/bin/topbeat-god already running."

Why is the debugging/logging data not coming out at stdout? Any troubleshooting idea?

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Hi @adron, the init.d script does not accept those parameters. Try this instead:

sudo /etc/init.d/topbeat stop
sudo /usr/bin/topbeat -c ./topbeat.yml -e -v -d "*"
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Just curious, where is this located in the documentation? That is, where and how to use examples. I found the area that explains the switches but there doesn't seem to be anything specific about how the service is or isn't running on the various operating systems.

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Adron, please see this ticket. If you specific recommendations, we would love to have your comments. Thanks

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