Running Logstash config in background

Elastic Stack Logstash
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I have created several config files and all are running with single run and stops when I close the terminal. How to make those config run forever in background and also do I have to run them again when server goes down/restart?

I have added schedule to make them run every 5 minutes. These config files fetches values from dB.

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Which operating system?

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Unix @magnusbaeck

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https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/running-logstash.html

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@magnusbaeck Ok that will start logstash service. Will it automatically pick up the config files ? How would it know the location of config files ?

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Will it automatically pick up the config files ?

Yes, if they're stored in the right place.

How would it know the location of config files ?

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Thanks for the reply. What would be the right directory to store config files? I have extracted logstash from .tar.gz file.

The link you provided doesn't contain the path to keep config files.
@magnusbaeck

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For rpm or debian installation on the path is there but it is not mentioned for tar.gz extracted setup @magnusbaeck

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If you want to run Logstash as a service I strongly recommend that you rely on the packages.

When running Logstash from the tarball I believe Logstash will read config/logstash.yml and that file will configure where Logstash reads the rest of the configuration files.

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Thanks. Would you recommend running them simply with nohup command?
@magnusbaeck

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No, absolutely not.

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