# Fail to install beat plugin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fail-to-install-beat-plugin/124693>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 20, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fail-to-install-beat-plugin/124693 "2018-03-20T06:32:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![fchang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9de053/32.png) [@fchang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fchang)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fail-to-install-beat-plugin/124693/1 "2018-03-20T06:32:36Z")

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Hello,  
I've download logstash-input-beats-master.zip from [https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-beats](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-input-beats) however installation got failed as below. Could anyone help me please?

# ./logstash-plugin install file:///root/elasticsearch/logstash-input-beats-master.zip

Installing file: /root/elasticsearch/logstash-input-beats-master.zip  
ERROR: Invalid pack for: file:///root/elasticsearch/logstash-input-beats-master.zip, reason: The pack must contains at least one plugin, message: The pack must contains at least one plugin

Thank you,  
Felix

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fail-to-install-beat-plugin/124693/2 "2018-03-20T06:54:59Z")

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You can't download a zip archive from GitHub and install it. Use the logstash-plugin program to install and upgrade plugins or, if you really have to, download the gem file from [rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org).

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**Author:** ![fchang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9de053/32.png) [@fchang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fchang)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fail-to-install-beat-plugin/124693/3 "2018-03-21T02:23:36Z")

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Thank you for your kind answer.

The main problem I have is that logstash does not listen 5044 port after installed with "logstash-6.2.2.rpm". I thought that beats plugin had to be installed however it beats plugin has been installed initially.

[root@cms bin]# ./logstash-plugin list |grep beats  
logstash-input-beats

I still don't know the reason why 5044 is not opened.

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fail-to-install-beat-plugin/124693/4 "2018-03-21T20:14:26Z")

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> The main problem I have is that logstash does not listen 5044 port after installed with "logstash-6.2.2.rpm".

Logstash won't do anything at all out of the box. Everything requires configuration.

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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:** [April 18, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fail-to-install-beat-plugin/124693/5 "2018-04-18T20:14:37Z")

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