# Wowza unstable. Crashes after a couple of days.

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-unstable-crashes-after-a-couple-of-days/38779>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [May 2, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-unstable-crashes-after-a-couple-of-days/38779 "2014-05-02T01:12:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Philipp\_Seeser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85e7bf/32.png) [@Philipp\_Seeser](https://community.wowza.com/u/Philipp_Seeser)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-unstable-crashes-after-a-couple-of-days/38779/1 "2014-05-02T01:12:40Z")

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I get frequently the following log:

INFO server comment - Wowza REST API stopped

INFO server comment - StatsManager:stopManager() stopped

Then Wowza runtime stopps working. Restart/etc doesn’t work. I can only reboot the entire server in order to start wowza again.

Cheers,

Philipp

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Hilton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/jason_hilton/32/437_2.png) [@Jason\_Hilton](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jason_Hilton)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/wowza-unstable-crashes-after-a-couple-of-days/38779/2 "2014-05-02T15:39:46Z")

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Hi,

To troubleshoot this issue please open a ticket by sending an email to support@wowza.com.

Include a description of the issue and attach a zipped copy of the following directories for analysis:

[Wowza-Install]/conf/

[Wowza-Install]/logs/

[Wowza-Install]/transcoder/

[Wowza-Install]/manager/logs/

Thanks,

Jason