ERR failed to initialize elasticsearch plugin as output

Elastic Stack Beats
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hello
can someone help me understand the problem with this

Feb 14 12:25:57 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started filebeat.
Feb 14 12:25:57 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting filebeat...
[ctf@localhost ~]$ sudo filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml -e -d "*"-path.config /etc/filebeat
[sudo] password for ctf:
2017/02/14 18:11:45.762963 beat.go:267: INFO Home path: [/home/ctf] Config path: [/home/ctf] Data path: [/home/ctf/data] Logs path: [/home/ctf/logs]
2017/02/14 18:11:45.763304 beat.go:177: INFO Setup Beat: filebeat; Version: 5.1.2
2017/02/14 18:11:45.763447 logp.go:219: INFO Metrics logging every 30s
2017/02/14 18:11:45.765014 output.go:167: INFO Loading template enabled. Reading template file: /etc/filebeat/filebeat.template.json
2017/02/14 18:11:45.767400 output.go:178: INFO Loading template enabled for Elasticsearch 2.x. Reading template file: /home/ctf/filebeat.template-es2x.json
2017/02/14 18:11:45.767696 outputs.go:100: ERR failed to initialize elasticsearch plugin as output: Error loading template /home/ctf/filebeat.template-es2x.json: open /home/ctf/filebeat.template-es2x.json: no such file or directory
2017/02/14 18:11:45.767951 beat.go:288: CRIT Exiting: error initializing publisher: Error loading template /home/ctf/filebeat.template-es2x.json: open /home/ctf/filebeat.template-es2x.json: no such file or directory
Exiting: error initializing publisher: Error loading template /home/ctf/filebeat.template-es2x.json: open /home/ctf/filebeat.template-es2x.json: no such file or directory

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Does that file exist?

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i am looking for it but it does not exit, i am sorry i am near with elasticsearch, can you help me figure out how to create that template or download it.
thank you

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How did you install filebeat?

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hello, u figure it out, and it is working now but i am having a problem with Kibana. i am getting an error, failed to connect to console backend
please check the kibana server is up and running message

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