# ERR failed to initialize elasticsearch plugin as output: missing condition

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-failed-to-initialize-elasticsearch-plugin-as-output-missing-condition/126162>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 29, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-failed-to-initialize-elasticsearch-plugin-as-output-missing-condition/126162 "2018-03-29T22:26:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![sunny1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@sunny1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunny1)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-failed-to-initialize-elasticsearch-plugin-as-output-missing-condition/126162/21 "2018-03-30T19:12:51Z")

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did as you mentioned. Opened my file in notepad and at end of line one pressed enter and saved both the files with new name and made changes accordingly in yml config. But i got error this time saying error decoding json.

Output log:

2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Disable stderr logging  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Home path: [C:\Users\sgorasia\Downloads\filebeat] Config path: [C:\Users\sgorasia\Downloads\filebeat] Data path: [C:\ProgramData\filebeat] Logs path: [C:\Users\sgorasia\Downloads\filebeat\logs]  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 5.5.1  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Processors:  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Initializing output plugins  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Loading template enabled. Reading template file: C:\Users\sgorasia\Downloads\filebeat\filebeat.template.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Loading template enabled for Elasticsearch 2.x. Reading template file: C:\Users\sgorasia\Downloads\filebeat\filebeat.template-es2x.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Loading template enabled for Elasticsearch 6.x. Reading template file: C:\Users\sgorasia\Downloads\filebeat\filebeat.template-es6x.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Elasticsearch url: [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Activated elasticsearch as output plugin.  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Create output worker  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG No output is defined to store the topology. The server fields might not be filled.  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Publisher name: 5CG722343K  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Flush Interval set to: 1s  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Max Bulk Size set to: 50  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG create bulk processing worker (interval=1s, bulk size=50)  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO filebeat start running.  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Registry file set to: C:\ProgramData\filebeat\registry  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Loading registrar data from C:\ProgramData\filebeat\registry  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Windows is interactive: false  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO States Loaded from registrar: 10  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Loading Prospectors: 2  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Starting Registrar  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Start sending events to output  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG File Configs: [C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json]  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Starting spooler: spool\_size: 2048; idle\_timeout: 5s  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG exclude\_files: []  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG New state added for C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Prospector with previous states loaded: 1  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Starting prospector of type: log; id: 3140866685714624168  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Start next scan  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG File Configs: [C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json]  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG exclude\_files: []  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG New state added for C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Prospector with previous states loaded: 1  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Starting prospector of type: log; id: 10374277926638004162  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Check file for harvesting: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Loading and starting Prospectors completed. Enabled prospectors: 2  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Start next scan  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Update existing file for harvesting: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json, offset: 261  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Resuming harvesting of file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json, offset: 261  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Check file for harvesting: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Update existing file for harvesting: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json, offset: 267  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Resuming harvesting of file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json, offset: 267  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Set previous offset for file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json. Offset: 261  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Setting offset for file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json. Offset: 261  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Prospector states cleaned up. Before: 1, After: 1  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Harvester started for file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Set previous offset for file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json. Offset: 267  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Setting offset for file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json. Offset: 267  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG Prospector states cleaned up. Before: 1, After: 1  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 ERR Error decoding JSON: EOF  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 INFO Harvester started for file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 ERR Error decoding JSON: EOF  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG End of file reached: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json; Backoff now.  
2018-03-30T12:10:32-07:00 DBG End of file reached: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json; Backoff now.  
2018-03-30T12:10:33-07:00 DBG End of file reached: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json; Backoff now.  
2018-03-30T12:10:33-07:00 DBG End of file reached: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json; Backoff now.  
2018-03-30T12:10:35-07:00 DBG End of file reached: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json; Backoff now.  
2018-03-30T12:10:35-07:00 DBG End of file reached: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json; Backoff now.  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG Flushing spooler because of timeout. Events flushed: 6  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG Publish: {  
"@timestamp": "2018-03-30T19:10:32.917Z",  
"beat": {  
"hostname": "5CG722343K",  
"name": "5CG722343K",  
"version": "5.5.1"  
},  
"fields": {  
"document\_type": "testrailresults15"  
},  
"input\_type": "log",  
"json\_error": "Error decoding JSON: EOF",  
"offset": 269,  
"source": "C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json",  
"type": "log"  
}  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG Publish: {  
"@timestamp": "2018-03-30T19:10:32.916Z",  
"beat": {  
"hostname": "5CG722343K",  
"name": "5CG722343K",  
"version": "5.5.1"  
},  
"fields": {  
"document\_type": "testrailresults14"  
},  
"input\_type": "log",  
"json\_error": "Error decoding JSON: EOF",  
"offset": 263,  
"source": "C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json",  
"type": "log"  
}

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**Author:** ![sunny1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@sunny1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunny1)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-failed-to-initialize-elasticsearch-plugin-as-output-missing-condition/126162/22 "2018-03-30T19:13:01Z")

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Remaining log:

2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG output worker: publish 2 events  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG ES Ping(url=http://localhost:9200, timeout=1m30s)  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG Ping status code: 200  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 INFO Connected to Elasticsearch version 5.5.1  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 INFO Trying to load template for client: [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG HEAD [http://localhost:9200/\_template/filebeat](http://localhost:9200/_template/filebeat)  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 INFO Template already exists and will not be overwritten.  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG PublishEvents: 2 events have been published to elasticsearch in 60.006ms.  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG send completed  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG Events sent: 6  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG Processing 6 events  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG Registrar states cleaned up. Before: 10, After: 10  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG Write registry file: C:\ProgramData\filebeat\registry  
2018-03-30T12:10:37-07:00 DBG Registry file updated. 10 states written.  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Received svc stop/shutdown request  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Stopping filebeat  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Stopping Crawler  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Stopping 2 prospectors  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Prospector ticker stopped  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Stopping Prospector: 10374277926638004162  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Reader was closed: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json. Closing.  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Stopping harvester for file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Prospector channel stopped because beat is stopping.  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Closing file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Prospector ticker stopped  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Update state: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults15.json, offset: 269  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Stopping Prospector: 3140866685714624168  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Prospector channel stopped because beat is stopping.  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Reader was closed: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json. Closing.  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Stopping harvester for file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Closing file: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Update state: C:\TestRail\TestRailResults14.json, offset: 263  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Crawler stopped  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Stopping spooler  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Spooler has stopped  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Shutting down sync publisher  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Stopping Registrar  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Ending Registrar  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Write registry file: C:\ProgramData\filebeat\registry  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 DBG Registry file updated. 10 states written.  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Total non-zero values: filebeat.harvester.closed=2 filebeat.harvester.started=2 libbeat.es.call\_count.PublishEvents=1 libbeat.es.publish.read\_bytes=823 libbeat.es.publish.write\_bytes=1179 libbeat.es.published\_and\_acked\_events=2 libbeat.publisher.published\_events=2 publish.events=6 registrar.states.current=10 registrar.states.update=6 registrar.writes=2  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO Uptime: 5.9135913s  
2018-03-30T12:10:38-07:00 INFO filebeat stopped.

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**Author:** ![sunny1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@sunny1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunny1)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-failed-to-initialize-elasticsearch-plugin-as-output-missing-condition/126162/23 "2018-03-30T19:27:14Z")

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It worked. Thanks so much for your help.

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**Author:** ![sunny1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@sunny1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunny1)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-failed-to-initialize-elasticsearch-plugin-as-output-missing-condition/126162/24 "2018-03-30T19:27:36Z")

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Really appreciate all your help/time.

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**Author:** ![pierhugues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pierhugues/32/48383_2.png) [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-failed-to-initialize-elasticsearch-plugin-as-output-missing-condition/126162/25 "2018-03-30T19:29:29Z")

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Glad it worked!

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**Author:** ![sunny1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@sunny1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunny1)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-failed-to-initialize-elasticsearch-plugin-as-output-missing-condition/126162/26 "2018-03-30T19:30:03Z")

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Thanks much.

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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:** [April 27, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/err-failed-to-initialize-elasticsearch-plugin-as-output-missing-condition/126162/27 "2018-04-27T19:30:04Z")

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