# Stuck at "Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=\>9600}"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stuck-at-successfully-started-logstash-api-endpoint-port-9600/155023>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 1, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stuck-at-successfully-started-logstash-api-endpoint-port-9600/155023 "2018-11-01T13:09:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike.Barretta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mike.barretta/32/16688_2.png) [@Mike.Barretta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike.Barretta)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stuck-at-successfully-started-logstash-api-endpoint-port-9600/155023/6 "2018-11-02T15:16:58Z")

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Logstash is meant to be a service that continuously processes data, so there is not a built-in way to stop it after processing a file. It is ok to kill it manually or via a script.

There are a bunch of other posts covering it if you want to dig in more:

- [Stop Logstash when it has finished to read a csv file](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stop-logstash-when-it-has-finished-to-read-a-csv-file/26632)
- [Stop logstash after processing the file](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stop-logstash-after-processing-the-file/84959)
- [How to Shutdown logstash once it read full file](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-shutdown-logstash-once-it-read-full-file/83166)

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