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How to configure logstash-forwarder and make it working on AWS linux instances?

  • Posted February 10, 2015

i have configured ELK effectively on AWS linux. however, i am not able to get logstash-forwarder working and getting below error while starting the logstash-forwarder service on client servers which are Amazon linux.

“/etc/init.d/logstash-forwarder: line 25: /lib/init/vars.sh: No such file or directory”

can anyone help me on this.

also suggest how i can check and confirm the functioning of my ELK server.

Thanks in advance.

Shail

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jarpy • May 25, 2015

I wrote this init script for RedHat/CentOS:

https://gist.github.com/jarpy/df2c4943e70f88b6076a There’s also a bunch of example init scripts, for various distributions, taken from James Turnbull’s excellent Logstash book:

http://www.logstashbook.com/code/4/

edhurtig • April 25, 2015

Note that the init script was removed from the logstash-forwarder Github repo in February. This link is to the last version of the init script

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/logstash-forwarder/a73e1cb7e43c6de97050912b5bb35910c0f8d0da/logstash-forwarder.init

Andrew SB • February 11, 2015

Without knowing more about how you installed logstash-forwarder, it’s hard to give a good answer to your question. You can grab and install the init script in the GitHub repo using:

cd /etc/init.d/; sudo wget https://raw.github.com/elasticsearch/logstash-forwarder/master/logstash-forwarder.init -O logstash-forwarder
sudo chmod +x logstash-forwarder
sudo update-rc.d logstash-forwarder defaults

This assumes your logstash-forwarder binary is installed to /opt/logstash-forwarder/bin/logstash-forwarder Edit the DAEMON variable as needed if that’s not the case.

Checkout this tutorial for all the information on setting up an ELK server on Ubuntu:

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