# Starting Elasticsearch fails **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 10, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-fails/278318 "2021-07-10T08:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maof97](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maof97/32/101433_2.png) [@maof97](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maof97)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-fails/278318/1 "2021-07-10T08:22:32Z")
Hi, I had an outage at my Server (self-hosted) and now every time I want to start ES this error appears: Jul 10 08:15:44 pelk logstash[720]: [2021-07-10T08:15:44,162][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch][pfelk] Attempted to resurrect connection to dead ES instance, but got an error. {:url=\>"[http://elastic:xxxxxx@10.24.1.5:9200/](http://elastic:xxxxxx@10.24.1.5:9200/)", :error\_type=\>LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch::HttpClient::Pool::HostUnreachableError, :error=\>"Elasticsearch Unreachable: [[http://elastic:xxxxxx@10.24.1.5:9200/](http://elastic:xxxxxx@10.24.1.5:9200/)][Manticore::SocketException] Connection refused (Connection refused)"} I can't reach the given IP:Port in the browser either. How can I make it stop trying to resurrect that connection and just make a new one? Is there some kind of hard reset for ES? I obviously tried a reboot but it didn't help. Kibana Logstash etc. are working well and all was fine before the outage (no settings changed etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-fails/278318/2 "2021-07-10T08:30:17Z")
What is in the Elasticsearch logs? Which version of Elasticsearch are you using? ---
**Author:** ![maof97](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maof97/32/101433_2.png) [@maof97](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maof97)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-fails/278318/3 "2021-07-10T08:42:05Z")
Ah it works again. I thought the errors I posted were the relevant errors but it turns out I had more detailed ones in the log file which helped me solve the problem. Thanks anyway for the help. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-elasticsearch-fails/278318/4 "2021-08-07T08:42:26Z")
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