Problem on Logstash setup

Elastic Stack Logstash
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Hi,

I'm new on ELK stack. In fact, I'm in the first steps of.

I was following this tutorial https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/advanced-pipeline.html

Everything was doing good until the step where I've to run the command: curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/logstash-2016.06.10/_search?q=response=200'

I got the message "curl: (6) Could not resolve host: 'localhost"

But if I change the command to curl -XGET "localhost:9200/logstash-2016.06.10/_search?q=response=200" (I changed the quote) I got this message

curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9200: Connection refused

I'm trying to run this on my PC with a Windows 7, btw.

How can I fix that?

Sorry about this newbie question.
Let me know if you need any other information

Thanks

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I got the message "curl: (6) Could not resolve host: 'localhost"

Are you sure the single quote in your command actually is a straight single quote and not something else? Microsoft programs are known for screwing this up.

curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9200: Connection refused

Elasticsearch isn't running, or it's running and not answering on port 9200 (which would be weird since that's the default). Alternatively you have a firewall blocking the access.

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Hey, tks for your reply,

A stupid question, Should I start elasticsearch first and then logstash?
Cause, following the tutorial, nothing about start Elasticsearch was mentioned.

Plus, I turn off all my firewall configurations and about the quotes, I input that again, certifying that it's the right one and I got the same error.

Tks

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A stupid question, Should I start elasticsearch first and then logstash?

Shouldn't matter since LS retries failing requests, but LS needs ES and not vice versa so starting ES first makes good sense.

5

Hey,

Again tks for your answer.
I started ES up and everything works fine.

Tks for the help