Logstash Unrecognized service Amazon Linux

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I have been following this tutorial to install ELK stack in a remote server which runs on Amazon Linux. https://www.aytech.ca/blog/setup-elk-stack-amazon-linux/
I was able to install Elasticsearch and then to start it as a service.Then I installed logstash. However when I try to start the logstash service using this command,

service logstash status

the console returns this error.

 logstash: unrecognized service

However, when I grep'd the logstash it gave this output. Means it is running,right?

Can someone provide a solution how to make this logstash run as a service?

so the similar command `service elasticsearch start` worked just fine? — Jeff Schaller, Jan 18 '19 at 16:57
@JeffSchaller I added a screenshot of outputs to those two commands to the question. — Sandun, Jan 21 '19 at 08:50
This guide might refer to Amazon Linux 1 and if you launched an instance recently you might have launched Amazon Linux 2, can you try running `systemctl status logstash` and see what is the output in that case. — Yaron, Jan 21 '19 at 09:40
@Yaron I tried running that and it gave me -bash: systemctl: command not found. — Sandun, Jan 21 '19 at 10:53
Yaron & Jeff , thank you for the suggestions. I had to relaunch the server with AL 2 as the OS and now logstash is running in it. — Sandun, Jan 23 '19 at 11:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 25 '19 at 03:57

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Eventually I had to relaunch the server with Amazon Linux 2 OS.Now I am able to run Logstash inside that,but I still don't know how to tackle the issue in an Amazon Linux 1 OS.

answered Jan 25 '19 at 03:57

Sandun

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