# File input plugin is not working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-plugin-is-not-working/95084
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 30, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-plugin-is-not-working/95084 "2017-07-30T17:04:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ibrahimsharaf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ibrahimsharaf)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-plugin-is-not-working/95084/1 "2017-07-30T17:04:59Z")
Hello everyone, I am trying to use file input plugin instead of tcp, but it doesn't work (there are no injected files in elasticsearch), here's a minimal configuration for logstash:
```
input {
file {
path => ["/home/ibrahimsharaf/docker-elk/logs/**/*.log"]
codec => multiline {
pattern => "^%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601} "
negate => true
what => previous
}
sincedb_path => "/dev/null"
start_position => "beginning"
}
}
output {
stdout {
codec => rubydebug
}
elasticsearch {
hosts => "elasticsearch:9200"
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-plugin-is-not-working/95084/2 "2017-08-02T12:45:47Z")
Comment out the elasticsearch output while you're debugging and focus on what you get from the stdout output. What happens if you comment out the multiline codec? What does an example log line look like?
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### Author:  [@ibrahimsharaf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ibrahimsharaf)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-plugin-is-not-working/95084/3 "2017-08-02T13:12:09Z")
It turned out to be an installation rather than configurations problem, thanks @magnusbaeck.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-plugin-is-not-working/95084/4 "2017-08-30T13:12:17Z")
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