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Troubleshooting monitoring in Logstash

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Logstash monitoring not working after upgrade

When upgrading from older versions, the built-in logstash_system user is disabled for security reasons. To resume monitoring:

  1. Change the logstash_system password:

    JSON 
    PUT _security/user/logstash_system/_password
{
  "password": "newpassword"
}

  2. Re-enable the logstash_system user:

    JSON 
    PUT _security/user/logstash_system/_enable