# ERROR: Couldn't find any input plugin named 'date'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-date/38148>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [December 30, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-date/38148 "2015-12-30T05:16:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![mchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@mchen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mchen)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-date/38148/1 "2015-12-30T05:16:50Z")

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I'm working with a config file to import a csv file into logstash sample below:

filter {

```
    csv {
	columns => [Column names here]

```

}

```
   	 date { 
	match => ["donation_timestamp", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS", "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"]
}  
    
mutate {
    	convert => ["donation_optional_support","float"]
    	convert => ["donation_to_project","float"]
    	convert => ["donation_total","float"]
    }

```

}

The error reported is:  
Couldn't find any input plugin named 'date'. Are you sure this is correct? Trying to load the date input plugin resulted in this error: no such file to load -- logstash/inputs/date

I know there is a logstash/filter/date plugin but there shouldn't be a inputs/date to my knowledge cannot figure this out.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-date/38148/2 "2015-12-30T05:36:10Z")

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What version are you on?

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**Author:** ![mchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@mchen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mchen)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-date/38148/3 "2015-12-30T07:50:40Z")

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I tried this on both 2.1.1 and 2.1.0

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-date/38148/4 "2015-12-30T08:25:53Z")

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Can you show your input block, which Logstash seems to be complaining about?

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**Author:** ![mchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@mchen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mchen)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-date/38148/5 "2015-12-30T15:10:53Z")

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Input

input {  
file {  
path =\> ["/Data/donations.csv“]  
start\_position =\> beginning  
}  
}

And output

output {

```
    elasticsearch { hosts => "localhost" index => "opendata" index_type => "donations"}  
    
    }
```

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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, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-couldnt-find-any-input-plugin-named-date/38148/6 "2017-07-06T05:17:08Z")

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