# Curator 5.8.1 question // no output on curator logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-8-1-question-no-output-on-curator-logs/234021>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** curator\
**Created:** [May 23, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-8-1-question-no-output-on-curator-logs/234021 "2020-05-23T23:08:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tombal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tombal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tombal)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-8-1-question-no-output-on-curator-logs/234021/1 "2020-05-23T23:08:05Z")

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Hello elastic team,  
I have a problem with curator. It just stops without any error or anything after 2 secs. Both tried normal and dryrun no change.

I have 3 nodes elastic cluster running on Rhel 7.7 VMs.  
ELK version 7.6.1.

I'm trying to run curator on a windows server on the same ip block. Can you tell me what i'm missing below.

My logoutput is only this 3 lines each time;  
\> 2020-05-24 01:27:19,432 DEBUG curator.cli run:110 Client and logging options validated.  
\> 2020-05-24 01:27:19,432 DEBUG curator.cli run:114 default\_timeout = 30  
\> 2020-05-24 01:27:19,432 DEBUG curator.cli run:118 action\_file: action.yml

```
***action.yml***
     
     actions:
      1:
         action: delete_indices
         description: >-
           My desc...
         options:
           ignore_empty_list: True
           continue_if_exception: True
           disable_action: False
         filters:
         - filtertype: pattern
           kind: regex
           value: '^csm_siem_record_(xxx|yyy|zzz|ffff)\D+(\d{1,2}_)?\d+'
         - filtertype: age
           source: name
           direction: older
           timestring: '%Y%m'
           unit: months
           unit_count: 2

***config.yml***

 client: 
   hosts:  
     - 10.214.107.13
   port: 9200
   url_prefix: 
   use_ssl: False
   certificate:  
   client_cert: 
   client_key: 
   ssl_no_validate: True
   http_auth: "elastic:xxxx"
   timeout: 30
   master_only: False

 logging: 
   loglevel: DEBUG
   logfile: 'C:\Program Files\elasticsearch-curator\logs\test.log'

```

Incase my indice pattern seems strange , i have like 1.5k indices with this format.  
So i regexed it.

csm\_siem\_record\_xxxx\_2\_202005  
csm\_siem\_record\_yyyy\_4\_202005  
csm\_siem\_record\_zzzz202005  
csm\_siem\_record\_fffff202005  
csm\_siem\_record\_gggg202002

I can try with unix environment as a cronjob , if it's about environment.

Best Regards ET

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**Author:** ![Tombal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tombal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tombal)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-8-1-question-no-output-on-curator-logs/234021/2 "2020-05-24T23:03:14Z")

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Hey there, you can close the topic.  
I made it work btw.

Problem is windows not accepting , JSON format you have to escape inner quotes with \ escape character before them. Another problem is even regex is quite working. curator config doesn't except some regex params like \D+ which i used for non digit chars. Tried with both curator and curator\_cli.

I had to move greedy as it saved my case.  
"^csm\_siem\_record\_(xxx|yyy|zzz|ffff).\*"

Deep note:  
as i keep adding actions , it may be torture so running from unix now with RPM install.

Best Regards ET...

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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 21, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-8-1-question-no-output-on-curator-logs/234021/3 "2020-06-21T23:03:16Z")

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