# Systemctl status logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/systemctl-status-logstash/121552>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 26, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/systemctl-status-logstash/121552 "2018-02-26T19:34:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![alfastep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@alfastep](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alfastep)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/systemctl-status-logstash/121552/1 "2018-02-26T19:34:02Z")

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When I run:  
systemctl start logstash

and then I run:  
systemctl status logstash

I get the following message:  
logstash.service - logstash  
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/logstash.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)  
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Mon 2018-02-26 19:29:10 UTC; 1s ago  
Process: 2016 ExecStart=/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)  
Main PID: 2016 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Any idea or help on what could be causing this error? Also I am running this on an t2micro ec2 instance

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**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:** [February 27, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/systemctl-status-logstash/121552/2 "2018-02-27T03:23:49Z")

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Did you check the logs? `/var/log/logstash/` 🙂

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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:** [March 27, 2018, 3:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/systemctl-status-logstash/121552/3 "2018-03-27T03:24:02Z")

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