# Error | Install prometheus plugin for elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [February 2, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520 "2020-02-02T11:49:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Muhammad\_Badawy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad_Badawy)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/1 "2020-02-02T11:49:23Z")
Trying to install prometheus-exporter plugin for elasticsearch - version 6.5.4.0 but I got the below error
Any support to resolve this?
[root@ elasticsearch]# ./bin/elasticsearch-plugin install -b file:///tmp/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter-6.5.4.0.zip
-\> Downloading file:///tmp/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter-6.5.4.0.zip
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Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins/.installing-5109354402234643044/plugin-descriptor.properties
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:86)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214)
at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361)
at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407)
at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:384)
at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginInfo.readFromProperties(PluginInfo.java:162)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.loadPluginInfo(InstallPluginCommand.java:713)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.installPlugin(InstallPluginCommand.java:792)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.install(InstallPluginCommand.java:775)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:231)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:216)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.MultiCommand.execute(MultiCommand.java:77)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginCli.main(PluginCli.java:47)
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/2 "2020-02-03T15:21:33Z")
Does the plugin archive have a `plugin-descriptor.properties` file? Just check via `zip -l`...
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### Author:  [@Muhammad\_Badawy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad_Badawy)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/3 "2020-02-03T17:52:13Z")
> [@spinscale](#):
>
> plugin-descriptor
No It doesn't have this file.
So what should I do?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/4 "2020-02-04T08:51:25Z")
Where is this prometheus-exporter plugin coming from? Is it an Elasticsearch plugin after all? Can you share a link?
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### Author:  [@Muhammad\_Badawy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad_Badawy)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/5 "2020-02-06T10:37:54Z")
HYG
> **[justwatchcom/elasticsearch\_exporter](https://github.com/justwatchcom/elasticsearch_exporter/releases)**
>
> Elasticsearch stats exporter for Prometheus. Contribute to justwatchcom/elasticsearch\_exporter development by creating an account on GitHub.
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### Author:  [@Muhammad\_Badawy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad_Badawy)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/6 "2020-02-06T11:22:37Z")
I also tried to place "plugin-descriptor.properties" inside the plugin folder but still the same error
>
So is there a certain path that this file should be placed in ?
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### Author:  [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/7 "2020-02-07T12:32:10Z")
Hi,
as far as I know [https://github.com/justwatchcom/elasticsearch\_exporter](https://github.com/justwatchcom/elasticsearch_exporter) is a proxy exporter. This means it runs as a standalone process. It is not installed as Elasticsearch plugin.
If you are looking for Prometheus exporter that is implemented as Elasticsearch plugin you can check [https://github.com/vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter](https://github.com/vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter)
Regards,
Lukáš
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### Author:  [@Muhammad\_Badawy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Muhammad_Badawy)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/8 "2020-02-08T07:14:15Z")
Sorry Lukas as it is my bad
Actually I'm already using the exporter in the below link for version 6.5.4
> **[vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter](https://github.com/vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter/releases/tag/6.5.4.0)**
>
> Prometheus exporter plugin for ElasticSearch. Contribute to vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter development by creating an account on GitHub.
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### Author:  [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/9 "2020-02-24T11:55:40Z")
Hi Muhammad,
if you are running into issues with this plugin, please open a ticket here [https://github.com/vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter/issues](https://github.com/vvanholl/elasticsearch-prometheus-exporter/issues)
Regards,
Lukáš
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-install-prometheus-plugin-for-elasticsearch/217520/10 "2020-03-23T11:55:56Z")
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