Error: Expected one of #, ", ', }

Elastic Stack Logstash
1

Hi all, I am facing a problem with logstash.

Here's the config file -

input {
file { path => "/home/app/estest.csv" start_position => "beginning" } }
filter {
}
output {
elasticsearch { hosts => "http://myownhost:9200" index => "revenue" document_type => "customer" } }

It's giving the error below -

Error: Expected one of #, ", ', } at line 6, column 18 (byte 132) after output {
elasticsearch {

hexdump -C also didn't give any clue.

I am not able to pin point any error here. Please help. Thanks

2

Hi,
try this configuration

input
{
file
{
path => "/home/app/estest.csv"
start_position => "beginning"
}
}
filter
{
}
output
{
elasticsearch
{
hosts => ["myownhost:9200"]
index => "revenue"
document_type => "customer"
}
}

notice hosts value between '[' and ']'

3

Got this error

Error: Expected one of #, ", ', } at line 6, column 18 (byte 170) after output {
elasticsearch {

4

Did you check your indentation? Logstash config files require accurate indentation. Make sure to have the appropriate amount of spaces before each line.

5

Yeah, got it working. Firstly my logstash version was quite lower so it didn't support hosts. And removed some spaces. Here's the working one.

input
{
file { path => "/home/app/estest.csv" start_position => "beginning" sincedb_path => "/home/app/input.log" } }
filter
{
}
output
{
elasticsearch { index => "revenue" hosts => ["http://myownhost:9200"] } }

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6

Logstash config files require accurate indentation.

The pipeline configuration files we're talking about here don't care about the indentation.

7

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