# Unable to listen on port 5044 for logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-listen-on-port-5044-for-logstash/103003>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 6, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-listen-on-port-5044-for-logstash/103003 "2017-10-06T12:21:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Parthgandhi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/parthgandhi/32/22742_2.png) [@Parthgandhi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Parthgandhi)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-listen-on-port-5044-for-logstash/103003/1 "2017-10-06T12:21:41Z")

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Hi,  
I modified the logstash conf file and ran the --config.reload.automatic however my beats are unable to send data to logstash. Below is the error excerpt from the logstash-plain.log file.

> [2017-10-06T08:19:10,007][INFO][org.logstash.beats.Server] Starting server on port: 5044  
> [2017-10-06T08:19:12,036][ERROR][logstash.pipeline] A plugin had an unrecoverable error. Will restart this plugin.  
> Plugin: \<LogStash::Inputs::Beats port=\>5044, ssl=\>true, ssl\_certificate=\>"/etc/pki/tls/certs/logstash-forwarder.crt", ssl\_key=\>"/etc/pki/tls/private/logstash-forwarder.key", id=\>"980a491b2e7bbe1d43e7b904d5b3425c6d6ac7fc-5", enable\_metric=\>true, codec=\>\<LogStash::Codecs::Plain id=\>"plain\_b2d8c255-cc2f-4871-83e0-a47afc3496ce", enable\_metric=\>true, charset=\>"UTF-8"\>, host=\>"0.0.0.0", ssl\_verify\_mode=\>"none", include\_codec\_tag=\>true, ssl\_handshake\_timeout=\>10000, congestion\_threshold=\>5, target\_field\_for\_codec=\>"message", tls\_min\_version=\>1, tls\_max\_version=\>1.2, cipher\_suites=\>["TLS\_ECDHE\_ECDSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_GCM\_SHA384", "TLS\_ECDHE\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_GCM\_SHA384", "TLS\_ECDHE\_ECDSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_GCM\_SHA256", "TLS\_ECDHE\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_GCM\_SHA256", "TLS\_ECDHE\_ECDSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_CBC\_SHA384", "TLS\_ECDHE\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_256\_CBC\_SHA384", "TLS\_ECDHE\_RSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_CBC\_SHA256", "TLS\_ECDHE\_ECDSA\_WITH\_AES\_128\_CBC\_SHA256"], client\_inactivity\_timeout=\>60\>  
> Error: event executor terminated

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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:** [November 3, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-listen-on-port-5044-for-logstash/103003/2 "2017-11-03T12:21:53Z")

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