Logstash Daemon dead but pid file exists

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frichard
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Logstash Daemon dead but pid file exists

Post by frichard »

Moderator Edit: This thread has been split from another - https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 37&t=43797
In the future, please create a new thread and link to the old one instead of adding on.


I have exactly the same error.
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mcapra
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Re: Logstash Daemon dead but pid file exists

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Can you share the output of the following commands executed from the CLI of the offending Nagios Log Server machine:

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service logstash restart
service logstash status
ps aux | grep java
ls -al /var/run/logstash
tail -n 100 /var/log/logstash/logstash.log
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Re: Logstash Daemon dead but pid file exists

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Thanks @mcapra!
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