# Elasticsearch not creating index for the filebeat data **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [October 24, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-creating-index-for-the-filebeat-data/105114 "2017-10-24T18:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jospaul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jospaul/32/128827_2.png) [@Jospaul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jospaul)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-creating-index-for-the-filebeat-data/105114/1 "2017-10-24T18:44:13Z")
I am trying to send some log files to elastic search directly using filebeat. I am not getting any errors in filebeat or elasticsearch. Below is the filebeat config: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/7/d73b08bdb634660623417e2b8adb9bed3d5e31bf.png) filebeat log: 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Home path: [C:\Program Files\filebeat-5.5.2-windows-x86\_64] Config path: [C:\Program Files\filebeat-5.5.2-windows-x86\_64] Data path: [C:\ProgramData\filebeat] Logs path: [C:\Program Files\filebeat-5.5.2-windows-x86\_64\logs] 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Metrics logging every 30s 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 5.5.2 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Loading template enabled. Reading template file: C:\Program Files\filebeat-5.5.2-windows-x86\_64\filebeat.template.json 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Loading template enabled for Elasticsearch 2.x. Reading template file: C:\Program Files\filebeat-5.5.2-windows-x86\_64\filebeat.template-es2x.json 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Loading template enabled for Elasticsearch 6.x. Reading template file: C:\Program Files\filebeat-5.5.2-windows-x86\_64\filebeat.template-es6x.json 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Elasticsearch url: [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200) 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Activated elasticsearch as output plugin. 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Publisher name: VW24998 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Flush Interval set to: 1s 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Max Bulk Size set to: 50 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO filebeat start running. 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Registry file set to: C:\ProgramData\filebeat\registry 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Loading registrar data from C:\ProgramData\filebeat\registry 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO States Loaded from registrar: 75 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Loading Prospectors: 1 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Starting Registrar 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Start sending events to output 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Starting spooler: spool\_size: 2048; idle\_timeout: 5s 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Prospector with previous states loaded: 47 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Starting prospector of type: log; id: 13285866520393955790 2017-10-24T13:39:05-05:00 INFO Loading and starting Prospectors completed. Enabled prospectors: 1 2017-10-24T13:39:35-05:00 INFO Non-zero metrics in the last 30s: publish.events=47 registrar.states.current=75 registrar.states.update=47 registrar.writes=1 2017-10-24T13:40:05-05:00 INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2017-10-24T13:40:35-05:00 INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2017-10-24T13:41:05-05:00 INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2017-10-24T13:41:35-05:00 INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s 2017-10-24T13:42:05-05:00 INFO No non-zero metrics in the last 30s I have kept elastic search running - ElasticSearch Log: [2017-10-24T10:13:42,700][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MyNode] initializing ... [2017-10-24T10:13:45,081][INFO][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment] [MyNode] using [1] data paths, mounts [[(C:)]], net usable\_space [101.6gb], net total\_space [462.9gb], spins? [unknown], types [NTFS] [2017-10-24T10:13:45,083][INFO][o.e.e.NodeEnvironment] [MyNode] heap size [1.9gb], compressed ordinary object pointers [true] [2017-10-24T10:13:45,087][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MyNode] node name [MyNode], node ID [z8TE95jFR6KD\_gFQZRojiQ] [2017-10-24T10:13:45,088][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MyNode] version[5.5.2], pid[8364], build[b2f0c09/2017-08-14T12:33:14.154Z], OS[Windows 7/6.1/amd64], JVM[Oracle Corporation/Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM/1.8.0\_144/25.144-b01] [2017-10-24T10:13:45,090][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MyNode] JVM arguments [-Xms2g, -Xmx2g, -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC, -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75, -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly, -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch, -Xss1m, -Djava.awt.headless=true, -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, -Djna.nosys=true, -Djdk.io.permissionsUseCanonicalPath=true, -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true, -Dio.netty.noKeySetOptimization=true, -Dio.netty.recycler.maxCapacityPerThread=0, -Dlog4j.shutdownHookEnabled=false, -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=true, -Dlog4j.skipJansi=true, -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, -Delasticsearch, -Des.path.home=C:\Program Files\elasticsearch-5.5.2] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,244][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [aggs-matrix-stats] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,245][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [ingest-common] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,246][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [lang-expression] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,248][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [lang-groovy] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,249][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [lang-mustache] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,250][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [lang-painless] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,251][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [parent-join] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,252][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [percolator] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,253][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [reindex] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,255][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [transport-netty3] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,256][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] loaded module [transport-netty4] [2017-10-24T10:13:53,257][INFO][o.e.p.PluginsService] [MyNode] no plugins loaded [2017-10-24T10:14:21,629][INFO][o.e.d.DiscoveryModule] [MyNode] using discovery type [zen] [2017-10-24T10:14:25,089][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MyNode] initialized [2017-10-24T10:14:25,091][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MyNode] starting ... [2017-10-24T10:14:28,600][INFO][o.e.t.TransportService] [MyNode] publish\_address {127.0.0.1:9300}, bound\_addresses {127.0.0.1:9300}, {[::1]:9300} [2017-10-24T10:14:32,193][INFO][o.e.c.s.ClusterService] [MyNode] new\_master {MyNode}{z8TE95jFR6KD\_gFQZRojiQ}{F26xRT36SQuGWYIw3t1ZVw}{127.0.0.1}{127.0.0.1:9300}, reason: zen-disco-elected-as-master ([0] nodes joined) [2017-10-24T10:14:32,671][INFO][o.e.g.GatewayService] [MyNode] recovered [0] indices into cluster\_state [2017-10-24T10:14:33,285][INFO][o.e.h.n.Netty4HttpServerTransport] [MyNode] publish\_address {127.0.0.1:9200}, bound\_addresses {127.0.0.1:9200}, {[::1]:9200} [2017-10-24T10:14:33,286][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [MyNode] started I am unable to figure out what is going wrong here and why the index is not getting created. ---
**Author:** ![Jospaul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jospaul/32/128827_2.png) [@Jospaul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jospaul)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-creating-index-for-the-filebeat-data/105114/2 "2017-10-25T20:08:15Z")
Looks like the issue was with filebeat running as a service. When i tried with the exe it worked fine. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-creating-index-for-the-filebeat-data/105114/3 "2017-11-22T20:08:35Z")
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