# Start and Stop order of Elastic stack components

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-and-stop-order-of-elastic-stack-components/164262>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-and-stop-order-of-elastic-stack-components/164262 "2019-01-15T08:30:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![DineshTripathi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@DineshTripathi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshTripathi)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-and-stop-order-of-elastic-stack-components/164262/1 "2019-01-15T08:30:50Z")

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Hello, I don't find sequence of starting and stopping elastic stack components.  
Elasticsearch  
logstash  
kibana  
beats

Also, To start and stop these components, what level of OS permission is needed.

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**Author:** ![A\_B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a_b/32/17104_2.png) [@A\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_B)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-and-stop-order-of-elastic-stack-components/164262/2 "2019-01-15T09:06:02Z")

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This is the data flow Beats -\> Logstash -\> Elasticsearch \<- Kibana

Start Elasticsearch first and work outward  
Shutdown from the outside towards Elasticsearch

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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:** [February 12, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-and-stop-order-of-elastic-stack-components/164262/3 "2019-02-12T09:06:03Z")

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