# 'appid' is not recognized as an internal or external command

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409 "2018-07-17T23:11:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![APJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@APJ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/APJ)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/1 "2018-07-17T23:11:18Z")

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Hi all,

I am following this link ([Link](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319243453_Building_an_IoT_Data_Hub_with_Elasticsearch_Logstash_and_Kibana)) to display live weather data on Kibana.

I used the logstash configuration explained in the pdf.

Here is my logstash configuration:

```
input {
  exec {
    command => "curl --silent -L ’http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=5490223&appid=my_api_key&units=metric’"
    codec => "json"
    interval => 600
  }
}
filter {
  mutate {
    remove_field => ["@version" ,"command" ,"host" ,"cod" ,"id" ,"base" ,"coord" ,"sys" ,"dt"]
  }
  split { field => "weather" }
}
output {
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
    index => "weather-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  }
}

```

When I execute, I get an error like this

```
PS E:\elk\logstash\bin> .\logstash -f weather_data.conf --config.test_and_exit
Sending Logstash's logs to E:/elk/logstash/logs which is now configured via log4j2.properties
[2018-07-17T15:59:55,097][WARN][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
Configuration OK
[2018-07-17T15:59:57,966][INFO][logstash.runner] Using config.test_and_exit mode. Config Validation Result: OK. Exiting Logstash
PS E:\elk\logstash\bin> .\logstash -f weather_data.conf
Sending Logstash's logs to E:/elk/logstash/logs which is now configured via log4j2.properties
[2018-07-17T16:00:43,198][WARN][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[2018-07-17T16:00:44,089][INFO][logstash.runner] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"6.3.1"}
[2018-07-17T16:00:49,292][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Starting pipeline {:pipeline_id=>"main", "pipeline.workers"=>8, "pipeline.batch.size"=>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>50}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,101][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Elasticsearch pool URLs updated {:changes=>{:removed=>[], :added=>[http://localhost:9200/]}}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,119][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Running health check to see if an Elasticsearch connection is working {:healthcheck_url=>http://localhost:9200/, :path=>"/"}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,488][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Restored connection to ES instance {:url=>"http://localhost:9200/"}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,596][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] ES Output version determined {:es_version=>6}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,603][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Detected a 6.x and above cluster: the `type` event field won't be used to determine the document _type {:es_version=>6}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,650][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] New Elasticsearch output {:class=>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch", :hosts=>["//localhost:9200"]}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,687][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Using mapping template from {:path=>nil}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,819][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Attempting to install template {:manage_template=>{"template"=>"logstash-*", "version"=>60001, "settings"=>{"index.refresh_interval"=>"5s"}, "mappings"=>{"_default_"=>{"dynamic_templates"=>[{"message_field"=>{"path_match"=>"message", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false}}}, {"string_fields"=>{"match"=>"*", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false, "fields"=>{"keyword"=>{"type"=>"keyword", "ignore_above"=>256}}}}}], "properties"=>{"@timestamp"=>{"type"=>"date"}, "@version"=>{"type"=>"keyword"}, "geoip"=>{"dynamic"=>true, "properties"=>{"ip"=>{"type"=>"ip"}, "location"=>{"type"=>"geo_point"}, "latitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}, "longitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}}}}}}}}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,921][INFO][logstash.inputs.exec] Registering Exec Input {:type=>nil, :command=>"curl --silent -L 'http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=5490223&appid=6fe2c29d12b0cced47f3efa361dc1fe8&units=metric'", :interval=>600, :schedule=>nil}
[2018-07-17T16:00:50,989][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Pipeline started successfully {:pipeline_id=>"main", :thread=>"#<Thread:0x59b6b4e7 run>"}
[2018-07-17T16:00:51,154][INFO][logstash.agent] Pipelines running {:count=>1, :running_pipelines=>[:main], :non_running_pipelines=>[]}
'appid' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'units' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
[2018-07-17T16:00:51,890][INFO][logstash.agent] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}

```

What wrong am I doing? Can someone please help me?

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/2 "2018-07-17T23:43:30Z")

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Windows quoting does not work like UNIX. It does not respect single quotes. You can test this in a CMD window.

```
C:\>echo 'foo&bar'
'foo
'bar'' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

```

Reverse the single and double quotes

```
command => 'curl --silent -L "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=5490223&appid=my_api_key&units=metric"’
```

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**Author:** ![APJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@APJ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/APJ)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/3 "2018-07-17T23:52:36Z")

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Thanks @Badger! It is working now.

But, when I now navigate to `http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices`, I don't see any new index that begins with `weather-*`

 ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/b/1b2d2972ff64c2f21c9108a3ccab2d4d16ad1a84.PNG)

What am I supposed to do now?

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/4 "2018-07-17T23:56:05Z")

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Add

```
output { stdout { codec => rubydebug } }

```

and see what the events look like. Also, check the elasticsearch logs and see if it is logging anything (although if it were returning an error to logstash I would expect logstash to log it).

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**Author:** ![APJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@APJ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/APJ)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/5 "2018-07-18T18:31:37Z")

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@Badger Everything seems to be fine

Here is the output of the **logstash-plain.log**

```
[2018-07-18T11:18:18,301][WARN][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified
[2018-07-18T11:18:18,764][INFO][logstash.runner] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"6.3.1"}
[2018-07-18T11:18:22,501][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Starting pipeline {:pipeline_id=>"main", "pipeline.workers"=>8, "pipeline.batch.size"=>125, "pipeline.batch.delay"=>50}
[2018-07-18T11:18:22,879][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Elasticsearch pool URLs updated {:changes=>{:removed=>[], :added=>[http://localhost:9200/]}}
[2018-07-18T11:18:22,886][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Running health check to see if an Elasticsearch connection is working {:healthcheck_url=>http://localhost:9200/, :path=>"/"}
[2018-07-18T11:18:23,089][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Restored connection to ES instance {:url=>"http://localhost:9200/"}
[2018-07-18T11:18:23,168][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] ES Output version determined {:es_version=>6}
[2018-07-18T11:18:23,177][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Detected a 6.x and above cluster: the `type` event field won't be used to determine the document _type {:es_version=>6}
[2018-07-18T11:18:23,213][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] New Elasticsearch output {:class=>"LogStash::Outputs::ElasticSearch", :hosts=>["//localhost:9200"]}
[2018-07-18T11:18:23,252][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Using mapping template from {:path=>nil}
[2018-07-18T11:18:23,297][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Attempting to install template {:manage_template=>{"template"=>"logstash-*", "version"=>60001, "settings"=>{"index.refresh_interval"=>"5s"}, "mappings"=>{"_default_"=>{"dynamic_templates"=>[{"message_field"=>{"path_match"=>"message", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false}}}, {"string_fields"=>{"match"=>"*", "match_mapping_type"=>"string", "mapping"=>{"type"=>"text", "norms"=>false, "fields"=>{"keyword"=>{"type"=>"keyword", "ignore_above"=>256}}}}}], "properties"=>{"@timestamp"=>{"type"=>"date"}, "@version"=>{"type"=>"keyword"}, "geoip"=>{"dynamic"=>true, "properties"=>{"ip"=>{"type"=>"ip"}, "location"=>{"type"=>"geo_point"}, "latitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}, "longitude"=>{"type"=>"half_float"}}}}}}}}
[2018-07-18T11:18:23,369][INFO][logstash.inputs.exec] Registering Exec Input {:type=>nil, :command=>"curl --silent -L \"http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=5490223&appid='My_API_Key'&units=metric\"", :interval=>600, :schedule=>nil}
[2018-07-18T11:18:23,409][INFO][logstash.pipeline] Pipeline started successfully {:pipeline_id=>"main", :thread=>"#<Thread:0x7420a8b0 run>"}
[2018-07-18T11:18:23,552][INFO][logstash.agent] Pipelines running {:count=>1, :running_pipelines=>[:main], :non_running_pipelines=>[]}
[2018-07-18T11:18:24,086][INFO][logstash.agent] Successfully started Logstash API endpoint {:port=>9600}

```

And yet, I don't see an index created

```
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green open .kibana ZB7x3FQyQlyRvkRIaEGi2g 1 0 2 0 12.3kb 12.3kb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.07.12 8iFI69JhQL-bLWsGZzFQYA 1 0 2370 0 697.8kb 697.8kb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.07.12 4-XcOMWsRkW7_enzqslTQg 1 0 34226 115 12.7mb 12.7mb
yellow open logstash-2018.07.13 _oiQOnpMQ4KQcHssK8PmxA 5 1 9999 0 7mb 7mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.07.18 h_ylFE80RS6153Sx5A7o6A 1 0 11538 0 11mb 11mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.07.15 27pTcx8TTDqchfQgo7WQ-w 1 0 234 0 160.2kb 160.2kb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.07.16 Lmydu8eOS8-p6aKPP7SUqw 1 0 1383 0 465.1kb 465.1kb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.07.17 HThfGRdATO-C455Xm_-e9Q 1 0 49107 175 18.1mb 18.1mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.07.17 u1EedigZSWeXOaOwdueEdQ 1 0 2450 0 700.7kb 700.7kb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.07.14 17TgPEalTAOJRe3gb59eZA 1 0 15 0 87.5kb 87.5kb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.07.16 3iZspMNoQUuty5lYM5ylvg 1 0 39028 135 17.3mb 17.3mb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.07.13 1FBGvkSzR4yf7WcyrwN3LQ 1 0 51214 50 19.2mb 19.2mb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.07.18 ZnYApUXKQbiH9CVFRqmzdw 1 0 530 0 413.1kb 413.1kb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.07.15 9TZ9csgUQp-LrAbRYT4aGw 1 0 9 0 127.5kb 127.5kb
green open .monitoring-kibana-6-2018.07.13 Cpt83ctnQiqLWiydy1nmUw 1 0 2585 0 830.1kb 830.1kb
green open .monitoring-es-6-2018.07.14 fuXHKIMNS5u15-XR0dvrTw 1 0 380 162 575.3kb 575.3kb

```

What wrong am I doing?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/6 "2018-07-18T18:43:41Z")

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Why not use the http\_poller input plugin instead of running a separate process?

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**Author:** ![APJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@APJ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/APJ)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/7 "2018-07-18T18:52:54Z")

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@magnusbaeck How do I use this plugin? Could you please help me? I need to get this up and running for a demo. Also, I have been following the steps in the pdf I have mentioned above. Is there anything wrong I am doing?

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**Author:** ![APJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@APJ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/APJ)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/8 "2018-07-18T19:55:22Z")

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@magnusbaeck @Badger I would really appreciate your help. Could you please help me?

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/9 "2018-07-18T20:16:01Z")

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Probably something like this, although I am unable to test it. Note that if it is configured to run every 10 minutes then it will wait for 10 minutes before the first run.

```
http_poller {
    urls => {
        weather => {
            url => "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=5490223&appid=my_api_key&units=metric’"
            headers => {
              Accept => "application/json"
            }
        }
    }
    schedule => { cron => "* */10 * * * *" }
    codec => json
}

```

Note also that is considered rude to ping people if they fail to respond within a few minutes.

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**Author:** ![APJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@APJ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/APJ)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/10 "2018-07-18T23:14:00Z")

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Thanks! I will take a look at it. Sorry, I did not mean to ping anyone. I did not realize that tagging name was equivalent to pinging. Will ensure that it doesn't happen.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/appid-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command/140409/11 "2018-08-15T23:25:43Z")

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