# Problems when starting elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-when-starting-elasticsearch/202203>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-when-starting-elasticsearch/202203 "2019-10-03T15:26:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![fgomez17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@fgomez17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fgomez17)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-when-starting-elasticsearch/202203/1 "2019-10-03T15:26:33Z")

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Hello there,  
I'm working on a VM on RHEL 7.4 and I need to install ElasticSearch and Kibana. But here is my problem, elasticsearch is installed on my vm but when I try to start it i got this :

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/d/0dd43b6c74ec571c12c2ef4c95936ae9420c4ebf.png)  
I check what happened by using systemctl status elasticsearch.service and here is the result : ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/c/fcc9b4eb2f4a7693ab9da7334c6cda179a79ad05.png)  
I checked if I have Java and yes I have the OpenJDK 1.8 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/6/26570f5a958c38e8d571f6838dcf376817e35020.png)

I know that there are other topics here who talked about it so I tried modify different files but with no success ! That why I'm asking for your help ! Please !

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**Author:** ![luiz.santos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luiz.santos/32/24664_2.png) [@luiz.santos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luiz.santos)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-when-starting-elasticsearch/202203/2 "2019-10-11T18:47:45Z")

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Hi @fgomez17,

You may find the reason Elasticsearch is not starting in the logs. By default they go to `/var/log/elasticsearch`. Can you check it and paste the relevant parts here?

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**Author:** ![fgomez17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@fgomez17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fgomez17)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-when-starting-elasticsearch/202203/3 "2019-10-21T09:24:34Z")

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Thanks luiz, I found the answer, it was because I didn't assigned enough RAM. You need at least 2Go.

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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:** [November 18, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-when-starting-elasticsearch/202203/4 "2019-11-18T09:24:36Z")

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