# Start fail error log **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 18, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-fail-error-log/58352 "2016-08-18T14:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chitta86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8797f3/32.png) [@chitta86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chitta86)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-fail-error-log/58352/1 "2016-08-18T14:01:53Z")
Hi while i start the service ' sudo service elasticsearch start ' i got the message 'Starting Elasticsearch Server [fail] ' how do i know where is the problem. I have set my '[cluster.name](http://cluster.name): jtv-elasticsearch' and '[node.name](http://node.name): jtv-node-1' in 'elasticsearch.yml' ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-fail-error-log/58352/2 "2016-08-19T02:17:07Z")
Look in `/var/log/elasticsearch` or `/var/log/syslog` or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![chitta86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8797f3/32.png) [@chitta86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chitta86)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-fail-error-log/58352/3 "2016-08-19T06:39:25Z")
Thanks for reply, i get the error log from /var/log/syslog 'Error: collectd is respawning too fast - disabled for 300 seconds' nothing else ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-fail-error-log/58352/4 "2017-07-05T22:26:46Z")