# File output plugin - index not created
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-output-plugin-index-not-created/106255
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 2, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-output-plugin-index-not-created/106255 "2017-11-02T21:45:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@lambomania](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lambomania)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-output-plugin-index-not-created/106255/1 "2017-11-02T21:45:44Z")
Hello,
I am an ELK noob. I am running Elastic Search 5.6.2 and Logstash 5.6.2.
I am using the file input plug and output to elastic search with no filters, but having no luck getting the output into ES.
I started logstash in debug and ran it for 24 hours. When I went into Kibana and entered the index name (files\*) to create the index, Kibana could not find it.
There was only one very small pdf file in the folder. The file and folder permission allows all users read/write access.
The config file looks like this:
input {
file {
id =\> "4"
path =\> "C:\documents"
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
#protocol =\> http
index =\> "files"
document\_type =\> "file"
document\_id =\> "%{docid}"
hosts =\> "CRMVM75:9200"
}
stdout { codec =\> rubydebug }
}
The output from the debug is this:
[2017-11-03T08:39:41,372][DEBUG][logstash.inputs.file] \_globbed\_files: C:\documents: glob is: []
[2017-11-03T08:39:43,284][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:39:48,286][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:39:53,288][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:39:56,398][DEBUG][logstash.inputs.file] \_globbed\_files: C:\documents: glob is: []
[2017-11-03T08:39:58,294][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:40:03,297][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:40:08,299][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:40:11,427][DEBUG][logstash.inputs.file] \_globbed\_files: C:\documents: glob is: []
[2017-11-03T08:40:13,302][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:40:18,303][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:40:23,306][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:40:26,447][DEBUG][logstash.inputs.file] \_globbed\_files: C:\documents: glob is: []
[2017-11-03T08:40:28,309][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:40:33,312][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
[2017-11-03T08:40:38,322][DEBUG][logstash.pipeline] Pushing flush onto pipeline
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### Author:  [@lambomania](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lambomania)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-output-plugin-index-not-created/106255/2 "2017-11-02T22:53:58Z")
Apologies-
1. I had the wrong title: It should be File input Plugin - Index not created.
2. The file input plugin is not appropriate for my requirements. I need to ingest Word and PDF documents. The FS Crawler seems like the best tool for this job.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-output-plugin-index-not-created/106255/3 "2017-11-30T22:54:29Z")
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