# Debugging logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debugging-logstash/50369>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 18, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debugging-logstash/50369 "2016-05-18T19:52:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jchoinski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@jchoinski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jchoinski)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debugging-logstash/50369/1 "2016-05-18T19:52:05Z")

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Hello,  
Is there anyway to attach an IDE to logstash to be able to step through plugin code?

I raised an issue here, but I wanted to try to solve the problem myself if I could.

> <https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-kafka/issues/37>

Thanks,  
Juliusz

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/debugging-logstash/50369/2 "2017-07-06T04:57:04Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:57am UTC