Technical Note: ZoneFox 4.0 - How to check the health of Kafka and Logstash

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Description

How to check the health of Kafka and Logstash

Scope

Troubleshooting

Solution

Kafka and Logstash will typically be running on your processing Linux server(s).

1. Open a shell prompt on the appropriate server(s)
2. Check the kafka and logstash services are running, using the commands:
   systemctl status kafka
   systemctl status logstash
   
   
3. If any services are not running, start them (as the root user):
   systemctl start kafka
   systemctl start logstash
   
   

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