# \[ERROR\]\[logstash.agent \] Failed to execute action {:action=\>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline\_id:main

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-logstash-agent-failed-to-execute-action-action-logstash-create-pipeline-id-main/195915>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 20, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-logstash-agent-failed-to-execute-action-action-logstash-create-pipeline-id-main/195915 "2019-08-20T11:56:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![jainabhishek0406](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@jainabhishek0406](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jainabhishek0406)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-logstash-agent-failed-to-execute-action-action-logstash-create-pipeline-id-main/195915/1 "2019-08-20T11:56:10Z")

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kindly help to resolve this issue.

PS C:\Users\abhishek12.jain\ELK\_Data\logstash-6.4.3\> .\bin/logstash.bat -f bin/logstash-sample.conf  
Sending Logstash logs to C:/Users/abhishek12.jain/ELK\_Data/logstash-6.4.3/logs which is now configured via log4j2.properties  
[2019-08-20T17:22:14,413][WARN][logstash.config.source.multilocal] Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified  
[2019-08-20T17:22:15,194][INFO][logstash.runner] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=\>"6.4.3"}  
[2019-08-20T17:22:15,444][ERROR][logstash.agent] Failed to execute action {:action=\>LogStash::PipelineAction::Create/pipeline\_id:main, :exception=\>"Java::JavaLang::NoSuchMethodEr  
ror", :message=\>"org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex.encodeHexString([B)Ljava/lang/String;", :backtrace=\>["org.logstash.execution.AbstractPipelineExt.initialize(AbstractPipelineExt.java:124 )", "org.logstash.execution.AbstractPipelineExt$INVOKER$i$3$0$initialize.call(AbstractPipelineExt$INVOKER$i$3$0$initialize.gen)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.JavaMethod$JavaMethodTh ree.call(JavaMethod.java:1186)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.JavaMethod$JavaMethodN.call(JavaMethod.java:743)", "org.jruby.ir.runtime.IRRuntimeHelpers.instanceSuper(IRRuntimeHelpers .java:983)", "org.jruby.ir.runtime.IRRuntimeHelpers.instanceSuperSplatArgs(IRRuntimeHelpers.java:974)", "org.jruby.ir.targets.InstanceSuperInvokeSite.invoke(InstanceSuperInvokeSite.java:39) ", "C\_3a\_.Users.abhishek12\_dot\_jain.ELK\_Data.logstash\_minus\_6\_dot\_4\_dot\_3.logstash\_minus\_core.lib.logstash.pipeline.RUBY$method$initialize$0(C:/Users/abhishek12.jain/ELK\_Data/logstash-6.4.3 /logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:22)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.CompiledIRMethod.call(CompiledIRMethod.java:77)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.cal l(MixedModeIRMethod.java:93)", "org.jruby.ir.runtime.IRRuntimeHelpers.instanceSuper(IRRuntimeHelpers.java:983)", "org.jruby.ir.runtime.IRRuntimeHelpers.instanceSuperSplatArgs(IRRuntimeHelpe rs.java:974)", "org.jruby.ir.targets.InstanceSuperInvokeSite.invoke(InstanceSuperInvokeSite.java:39)", "C\_3a\_.Users.abhishek12\_dot\_jain.ELK\_Data.logstash\_minus\_6\_dot\_4\_dot\_3.logstash\_minus\_ core.lib.logstash.pipeline.RUBY$method$initialize$0(C:/Users/abhishek12.jain/ELK\_Data/logstash-6.4.3/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:90)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.Compile dIRMethod.call(CompiledIRMethod.java:77)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.call(MixedModeIRMethod.java:93)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.cacheAndCall(C achingCallSite.java:298)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.callBlock(CachingCallSite.java:79)", "org.jruby.runtime.callsite.CachingCallSite.call(CachingCallSite.java:83)", "org. jruby.RubyClass.newInstance(RubyClass.java:1022)", "org.jruby.RubyClass$INVOKER$i$newInstance.call(RubyClass$INVOKER$i$newInstance.gen)", "org.jruby.ir.targets.InvokeSite.invoke(InvokeSite. java:145)", "C\_3a\_.Users.abhishek12\_dot\_jain.ELK\_Data.logstash\_minus\_6\_dot\_4\_dot\_3.logstash\_minus\_core.lib.logstash.pipeline\_action.create.RUBY$method$execute$0(C:/Users/abhishek12.jain/ELK \_Data/logstash-6.4.3/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline\_action/create.rb:38)", "C\_3a\_.Users.abhishek12\_dot\_jain.ELK\_Data.logstash\_minus\_6\_dot\_4\_dot\_3.logstash\_minus\_core.lib.logstash.pipel ine\_action.create.RUBY$method$execute$0$\_\_VARARGS\_\_(C:/Users/abhishek12.jain/ELK\_Data/logstash-6.4.3/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline\_action/create.rb)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.meth ods.CompiledIRMethod.call(CompiledIRMethod.java:77)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.methods.MixedModeIRMethod.call(MixedModeIRMethod.java:93)", "org.jruby.ir.targets.InvokeSite.invoke(InvokeS ite.java:145)", "C\_3a\_.Users.abhishek12\_dot\_jain.ELK\_Data.logstash\_minus\_6\_dot\_4\_dot\_3.logstash\_minus\_core.lib.logstash.agent.RUBY$block$converge\_state$2(C:/Users/abhishek12.jain/ELK\_Data/l ogstash-6.4.3/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:309)", "org.jruby.runtime.CompiledIRBlockBody.callDirect(CompiledIRBlockBody.java:145)", "org.jruby.runtime.IRBlockBody.call(IRBlockBody.ja va:71)", "org.jruby.runtime.Block.call(Block.java:124)", "org.jruby.RubyProc.call(RubyProc.java:289)", "org.jruby.RubyProc.call(RubyProc.java:246)", "org.jruby.internal.runtime.RubyRunnable .run(RubyRunnable.java:104)", "java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)"]}  
[2019-08-20T17:22:15,538][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=\>#\<LogStash::Error: Don't know how to handle `Java::JavaLang::NoSuchMethodError` for `Pipel ineAction::Create<main>`\>, :backtrace=\>["org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:103:in `create'", "org/logstash/execution/ConvergeResultExt.java:34:in`add'", "C:/Users/abhishek12.ja  
in/ELK\_Data/logstash-6.4.3/logstash-core/lib/logstash/agent.rb:321:in `block in converge\_state'"]}  
[2019-08-20T17:22:15,616][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (SystemExit) exit  
PS C:\Users\abhishek12.jain\ELK\_Data\logstash-6.4.3\>

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**Author:** ![jainabhishek0406](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@jainabhishek0406](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jainabhishek0406)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-logstash-agent-failed-to-execute-action-action-logstash-create-pipeline-id-main/195915/2 "2019-08-20T11:56:38Z")

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config file -  
input {  
file {  
path =\> ["\Users\abhishek12.jain\ELK\_Data\logstash-6.4.3\bin\cars.csv"]   
start\_position =\> "beginning"  
sincedb\_path =\> "nul"  
}  
}

filter {  
csv {  
separator =\> ","  
columns =\> ["maker","model","mileage","manufacture\_year","engine\_displacement","engine\_power","body\_type","color\_slug","stk\_year","transmission","door\_count","seat\_count","fuel\_type","date\_created","date\_last\_seen","price\_eur"]  
}  
mutate {convert =\> ["mileage","integer"]}  
mutate {convert =\> ["price\_eur","float"]}   
}

output {  
elasticsearch { hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"]  
index =\> "secondindex"  
document\_type =\> "sold\_cars"  
}  
stdout {codec =\> rubydebug}  
}

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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:** [September 17, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-logstash-agent-failed-to-execute-action-action-logstash-create-pipeline-id-main/195915/3 "2019-09-17T11:58:17Z")

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