# Problems starting logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-starting-logstash/80279>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-starting-logstash/80279 "2017-03-28T10:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meikop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Meikop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Meikop)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-starting-logstash/80279/1 "2017-03-28T10:56:48Z")

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Hello,

I'm exploring logstash to solve some of our logging-related problems but ran into a weird issue:

1. I installed logstash onto Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS via APT ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/2.3/installing-logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/2.3/installing-logstash.html)), installation was successful.  
Then I tried to run it with bin/logstash --log.level debug --config.debug  
No output in terminal, /var/log/logstash is empty

2. I thought I'm having an environment issue, tried logstash image from dockerhub ([https://hub.docker.com/\_/logstash/](https://hub.docker.com/_/logstash/)), ran it with -it flag, again no output in terminal

3. Realized that dockerhub image is deprecated, tried [docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:5.2.2](http://docker.elastic.co/logstash/logstash:5.2.2)  
a) ran it with -it flag, no output in terminal  
b) ran it with -d flag: docker logs is empty. Logged into container, could not find any logs (evidence that logstash started) in /var/log/ neither in /usr/share/logstash/

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!  
Marten

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-starting-logstash/80279/2 "2017-03-28T13:10:21Z")

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A long shot, but does this issue help?

> <https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/6117>

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**Author:** ![Meikop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Meikop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Meikop)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-starting-logstash/80279/3 "2017-03-28T13:50:48Z")

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That's it. Thanks. got it running!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-starting-logstash/80279/4 "2017-04-25T13:50:53Z")

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