# Deade letter queue setting create some log files which are not meaningful

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deade-letter-queue-setting-create-some-log-files-which-are-not-meaningful/198675>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 9, 2019, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deade-letter-queue-setting-create-some-log-files-which-are-not-meaningful/198675 "2019-09-09T12:09:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![sunilmchaudhari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sunilmchaudhari/32/9475_2.png) [@sunilmchaudhari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunilmchaudhari)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deade-letter-queue-setting-create-some-log-files-which-are-not-meaningful/198675/1 "2019-09-09T12:09:18Z")

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Hi,  
I am using LS-6.3.1. I enabled dead\_letter\_queue.

###logstash.yml----  
path.data: /MyHome/logstash-6.3.1/data

### Pipelines.yml

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/2/8200657b16371eefafcdc37ce200b7ba042e6b56.png)

pipeline name is: my\_pipe

After I restart my logstash, it creates files as below.

/MyHome/logstash-6.3.1/data/dead/dead\_letter\_queue/my\_pipe/1.log , 2.log, 3.log, 4.log

These log files doesnt contain anything except single digit number. For example 1.log contains '1', 2.log contains '2' and so on.

How would I know whethere my conf is correct? where can I see dead events?

thanks  
Sunil.

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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:** [October 7, 2019, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deade-letter-queue-setting-create-some-log-files-which-are-not-meaningful/198675/2 "2019-10-07T12:09:24Z")

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