Hello all, I'm having trouble getting a logstash instance to work sending events to Elasticsearch. I've troubleshooted quite far and narrowed it down to a problem somehow related to permissions but let me get into the setup first: I installed logstash 8.15.3 using the rpm package with zypper on a …

Ok, I mulled this over my break and managed to get it working today. It was indeed the permission on the folder, as execute permission is needed to traverse folders, read permission is not enough. Edit: I confirmed this by editing /etc/passwd and then doing su logstash to test the permissions as t…

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Permission problem when starting logstash with systemd on suse

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You could try enabling log.level trace. See what filewatch has to say.

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Permission problem when starting logstash with systemd on suse

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