# Trying to follow Logstash tutorial

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-follow-logstash-tutorial/194487>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 8, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-follow-logstash-tutorial/194487 "2019-08-08T18:03:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![bschooly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bschooly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bschooly)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-follow-logstash-tutorial/194487/1 "2019-08-08T18:03:51Z")

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On centos 7, I've installed logstash, and beats via the repo mentioned in the docs. The very first test at "[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/first-event.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/first-event.html)" works.

Now I'm trying "[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/advanced-pipeline.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/advanced-pipeline.html)" Beats and Logstash start (i think) without error. Port 5044 is listening. Yet I don't see any of the log records echoed to stdout in the console where logstash is running.

What am I doing wrong? How to debug?

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**Author:** ![bschooly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bschooly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bschooly)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-follow-logstash-tutorial/194487/2 "2019-08-08T19:15:47Z")

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Alright. Basically the tutorial skips settings you need!

In the filebeat.yml file, filebeat.inputs section, change

enable: false

to

enabled: true

Comment out

output.elasticsearch:

Comment out

hosts: ["localhost:9200"]"

in output.elasticsearch section.

Make sure "output.logstash:" is not commented out, and make sure it has

hosts: ["localhost:5044"]

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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:** [September 5, 2019, 7:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-follow-logstash-tutorial/194487/3 "2019-09-05T19:15:52Z")

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