Hi
Why doesn’t logstash run as a deamon?
I am trying to run logstash on Xubuntu in VM in VMware Workstation. I can start logstash in command prompt and make it use a simple configuration.conf as expected. One that takes stdin and sends to stdout.
per@logstash_1:/usr/share/logstash/bin$ sudo ./logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash
But I can not start it as a deamon:
sudo systemctl start logstash.service
Logstash keeps starting and stopping and uses a lot of CPU resources. These are the last entries in syslog:
Feb 26 13:15:21 logstash_1 systemd[1]: logstash.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 26 13:15:21 logstash_1 systemd[1]: logstash.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Feb 26 13:15:21 logstash_1 systemd[1]: Stopped logstash.
Feb 26 13:15:21 logstash_1 systemd[1]: Started logstash.
Logstash has stopped making entries into logstash-plain.log. Why?
That makes it hard to progress.
I have the suspicion that logstash cannot find /etc/logstash/logstash.yml because I have seen this message earlier:
WARNING: Could not find logstash.yml which is typically located in $LS_HOME/config or /etc/logstash. You can specify the path using --path.settings. Continuing using the defaults
Could not find log4j2 configuration at path /usr/share/logstash/config/log4j2.properties. Using default config which logs errors to the console
And this is because logstash dosnt get the --path.settings /etc/logstash option set.
I have put logstash in root group:
logstash : logstash root
Logstash version:
./logstash –version
logstash 6.2.2
Logstash environment:
per@logServer_4:/usr/share/logstash/bin$ sudo -Hu logstash env
TERM=xterm
LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:…
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
HOME=/usr/share/logstash
LANGUAGE=en_US
DISPLAY=:0.0
XAUTHORITY=/home/per/.Xauthority
COLORTERM=xfce4-terminal
MAIL=/var/mail/logstash
LOGNAME=logstash
USER=logstash
USERNAME=logstash
SHELL=/usr/sbin/nologin
SUDO_COMMAND=/usr/bin/env
SUDO_USER=per
SUDO_UID=1000
SUDO_GID=1000
Linux version:
per@logstash_1:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.4.0-116-generic (buildd@lgw01-amd64-021) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) ) #140-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 12 21:23:04 UTC 2018
Java version:
per@logstash_1:~$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_151"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-8u151-b12-0ubuntu0.16.04.2-b12)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode)
per@logstash_1:~$
