Pipelines YAML file is empty

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
1

I am new to ELK.Just tried installing and starting logstash on local windows PC, getting the below error after run the logstash.bat command.
Could you please help resolve the issue.

ERROR: Pipelines YAML file is empty. Location: C:/elastic_stack/logstash-8.0.0/config/pipelines.yml
usage:
  bin/logstash -f CONFIG_PATH [-t] [-r] [] [-w COUNT] [-l LOG]
  bin/logstash --modules MODULE_NAME [-M "MODULE_NAME.var.PLUGIN_TYPE.PLUGIN_NAME.VARIABLE_NAME=VALUE"] [-t] [-w COUNT] [-l LOG]
  bin/logstash -e CONFIG_STR [-t] [--log.level fatal|error|warn|info|debug|trace] [-w COUNT] [-l LOG]
  bin/logstash -i SHELL [--log.level fatal|error|warn|info|debug|trace]
  bin/logstash -V [--log.level fatal|error|warn|info|debug|trace]
  bin/logstash --help
[2022-02-18T08:38:29,689][FATAL][org.logstash.Logstash    ] Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit
org.jruby.exceptions.SystemExit: (SystemExit) exit
        at org.jruby.RubyKernel.exit(org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:747) ~[jruby-complete-9.2.20.1.jar:?]
        at org.jruby.RubyKernel.exit(org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:710) ~[jruby-complete-9.2.20.1.jar:?]
        at C_3a_.elastic_stack.logstash_minus_8_dot_0_dot_0.lib.bootstrap.environment.<main>(C:\elastic_stack\logstash-8.0.0\lib\bootstrap\environment.rb:94) ~[?:?]
2

If pipeline is not specified by YAML file, use logstash.bat with one of the above options in your error message.

3

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.