# Can't get logstash read json files to insert into ES

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-logstash-read-json-files-to-insert-into-es/69809
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 22, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-logstash-read-json-files-to-insert-into-es/69809 "2016-12-22T14:28:00Z")
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### Author: ![francopp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@francopp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/francopp)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-logstash-read-json-files-to-insert-into-es/69809/1 "2016-12-22T14:28:00Z")

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I try to run a JSON file trough Logstash to index in Elasticsearch, but I can't seem to get it indexed. I don't get any error messages or anything. It says: "Logstash startup complete".

My .conf file is set up like this

```
input {
stdin { }
file {
     type => json
     path => ["/home/francop/Desktop/logstash/conf/Datos/*.json"]
     codec => json
     start_position => beginning
     }
}

output {
        elasticsearch { hosts => ["localhost:9200"] }
        stdout { codec => rubydebug }
}

```

And my JSON file got the data like this

```
 {"@timestamp":"2016-12-01T23:58:17.360-03:00","@version":1,"message":"transactionStmId: TEST201612012358176958 - llamada al CREATEDOCUMENT","logger_name":"com.enerminds.stm.event.service.impl.StmEventServiceImpl","thread_name":"main","level":"INFO","level_value":20000,"HOSTNAME":"I120053","event":"CREATEDOCUMENT","step":"entrada"}
 {"@timestamp":"2016-12-01T23:58:27.789-03:00","@version":1,"message":"transactionStmId: TEST201612012358176958 - org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'getList' in class com.fdatalink.oms.data.InList threw exception class java.lang.RuntimeException : List cannot be null nor empty\r\n","logger_name":"com.enerminds.stm.event.service.impl.StmEventServiceImpl","thread_name":"main","level":"INFO","level_value":20000,"HOSTNAME":"I120053","event":"CREATEDOCUMENT","errorCode":"3003","step":"error"}
 {"@timestamp":"2016-12-01T23:58:27.797-03:00","@version":1,"message":"transactionStmId: TEST201612012358179773 - llamada al SETOWNERGROUP","logger_name":"com.enerminds.stm.event.service.impl.StmEventServiceImpl","thread_name":"main","level":"INFO","level_value":20000,"HOSTNAME":"I120053","event":"SETOWNERGROUP","errorCode":"3003","step":"entrada"}

```

I have also delete de sincedb files just in case. Before deleting them I check if there was any data and just 0 0 0 0 appears.

im running ES 2.4.3 and logstash 2.4.1

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### Author: ![francopp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@francopp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/francopp)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-logstash-read-json-files-to-insert-into-es/69809/2 "2016-12-22T15:16:22Z")

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I'm using Ubuntu 16.04

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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: [January 19, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-logstash-read-json-files-to-insert-into-es/69809/3 "2017-01-19T15:16:54Z")

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