Running Logstash as a Service on Debian or RPMedit

Logstash is not started automatically after installation. Starting and stopping Logstash depends on the init system of the underlying operating system, which is now systemd.

As systemd is now the de-facto init system, here are some common operating systems and versions that use it. This list is intended to be informative, not exhaustive.

Distribution

Service System

Ubuntu 16.04 and newer

systemd

Debian 8 "jessie" and newer

systemd

CentOS (and RHEL) 7 and newer

systemd

Running Logstash by Using Systemdedit

Distributions like Debian Jessie, Ubuntu 15.10+, and many of the SUSE derivatives use systemd and the systemctl command to start and stop services. Logstash places the systemd unit files in /etc/systemd/system for both deb and rpm. After installing the package, you can start up Logstash with:

sudo systemctl start logstash.service