# Can't get event when using Kafka with logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-event-when-using-kafka-with-logstash/82728>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 18, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-event-when-using-kafka-with-logstash/82728 "2017-04-18T14:01:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![luciferdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@luciferdude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luciferdude)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-event-when-using-kafka-with-logstash/82728/2 "2017-04-18T17:36:57Z")

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Hey, I've been having the same issue. I was told that 0.10.1.x is not compatible with LS 5.x . So I installed 6.2.7 version of logstash Plugin for both Input and Output and still it doesn't work for me. I've tried everything.

Logstash -\> Kafka -\> ELK

Follow my thread, may be it will be useful to troubleshoot your issue.

> [@Logstash not forwarding logs to ES via Kafka](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-forwarding-logs-to-es-via-kafka/82602):
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> I'm using ELK 5.0.1 and Kafka 0.10.1.0 . I'm not sure why my logs aren't forwarding I installed Kafkacat and was successfully able to Produce and Consume logs from all the 3 servers where Kafka cluster is installed. shipper.conf input { file { start\_position =\> "beginning" path =\> "/var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log" } } output { kafka { topic\_id =\> "stash" bootstrap\_servers =\> "\<i.p1\>:9092,\<i.p2\>:9092,\<i.p3\>:9092" } } receiver.conf i…

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