# Stopping logstash always enters failed status
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-logstash-always-enters-failed-status/237713
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 19, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-logstash-always-enters-failed-status/237713 "2020-06-19T01:28:00Z")
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### Author:  [@azteker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/azteker)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-logstash-always-enters-failed-status/237713/1 "2020-06-19T01:28:01Z")
I stop logstash with "systemctl stop logstash"
This is what "systemctl status logstash" returns
● logstash.service - logstash
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/logstash.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-06-19 01:21:29 UTC; 3min 26s ago
Process: 28377 ExecStart=/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash (code=exited, status=143)
Main PID: 28377 (code=exited, status=143)
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Jun 19 01:21:19 elk.novalocal systemd[1]: Started logstash.
Jun 19 01:21:28 elk.novalocal systemd[1]: Stopping logstash...
Jun 19 01:21:29 elk.novalocal systemd[1]: logstash.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=143/n/a
Jun 19 01:21:29 elk.novalocal systemd[1]: Stopped logstash.
Jun 19 01:21:29 elk.novalocal systemd[1]: Unit logstash.service entered failed state.
Jun 19 01:21:29 elk.novalocal systemd[1]: logstash.service failed.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-logstash-always-enters-failed-status/237713/2 "2020-07-17T01:28:05Z")
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