Filebeat to logstash connection refused - elasticsearch

Question

I'm trying to send log files from filebeat->logstash->elastic search.
filebeat.yml. But I'm getting the following error in filebeat log:
2017-12-07T16:15:38+05:30 ERR Failed to connect: dial tcp [::1]:5044: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
My filebeat and logstash configurations are as follows:
1.filebeat.yml
filebeat.prospectors:
- input_type: log
paths:
- C:\Users\shreya\Data\mylog.log
document_type: springlog
multiline.pattern: ^\[[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}
multiline.negate: true
multiline.match: before
output.logstash:
hosts: ["localhost:5044"]
2.logstash.yml
http.host: "127.0.0.1"
http.port: 5044
3.logstash conf file:
input {
beats {
port => 5044
codec => multiline {
pattern => "^(%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601})"
negate => true
what => "previous"
}
}
}
filter {
grok{
id => "myspringlogfilter"
match => { "message" => "%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp}; [LOG_LEVEL=%{LOGLEVEL:log-level}, CMPNT_NM= %{GREEDYDATA:component}, MESSAGE=%{GREEDYDATA:message}" }
overwrite => ["message"]
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => "localhost:9200"
manage_template => false
index => "%{[#metadata][beat]}-%{[#metadata][version]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
document_type => "%{[#metadata][type]}"
}
stdout {
codec => rubydebug
}
}

Answer 1

Problem got solved after I commented out the metric settings in logstash.yml as follows:
# ------------ Metrics Settings --------------
#
# Bind address for the metrics REST endpoint
#
#http.host: "127.0.0.1"
#
# Bind port for the metrics REST endpoint, this option also accept a range
# (9600-9700) and logstash will pick up the first available ports.
#
#http.port: 5044
#
But still do not know why this solved the issue. as both(filebeat and logstash) were pointing to the same port. If someone could explain the reason,
then prior Thanks!