# Can we stop logstash from "Attempting to install template..."

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-stop-logstash-from-attempting-to-install-template/232463>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 13, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-stop-logstash-from-attempting-to-install-template/232463 "2020-05-13T15:02:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![aviationfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@aviationfan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviationfan)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-stop-logstash-from-attempting-to-install-template/232463/1 "2020-05-13T15:02:31Z")

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I see this in my logstash log every time it starts up and it seems like an redundant and unnecessary step. Can I configure it to not do this?

`[2020-05-13T09:51:10,669][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch][main] Attempting to install template {:manage_template=>{"index_patterns"=>"logstash-*", "version"=>60001,...`

Our use case is to launch logstash on demand each time it is needed from the command line. The install template step takes 2+ seconds and is not needed so we would like to turn that off somehow.

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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:** [May 13, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-stop-logstash-from-attempting-to-install-template/232463/2 "2020-05-13T16:05:08Z")

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Have you tried setting the manage\_template option of the elasticsearch output to false?

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**Author:** ![aviationfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@aviationfan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviationfan)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-stop-logstash-from-attempting-to-install-template/232463/3 "2020-05-13T20:45:56Z")

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That worked perfectly. I don't know how I missed that in the docs.

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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:** [June 10, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-stop-logstash-from-attempting-to-install-template/232463/4 "2020-06-10T20:46:06Z")

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